Hezbollah MP says party 'evaluating' govt. decision on arms

MP Ali Ammar of Hezbollah’s Loyalty to Resistance parliamentary bloc announced Wednesday that “Hezbollah’s leadership is evaluating what happened yesterday” as to the government’s unprecedented decision to monopolize arms before the year’s end.

“In light of this evaluation, the appropriate decision will be taken, seeing as the party has always been the party that is the keenest on civil peace,” Ammar added, after a Hezbollah delegation met with MP Faisal Karami in Tripoli.

Stressing “the need not to allow the Zionist enemy to sow sedition,” Ammar said “the paper that was carried by U.S. envoy Tom Barrack cannot be described as American, seeing as it is Israel in form and content.”

“The Lebanese must beware of what Israel is seeking through this paper, because the resistance and the state have honored their commitments while Israel has not,” the lawmaker added.

He also stressed Hezbollah’s “keenness on the Lebanese Army institution and on the complementary relation with it as a security valve for the country.”