Suleiman: Resistance has fulfilled a big national achievement via swap deal
Source: Al-Manar TV, 1-7-2008
Lebanon prepares to receive liberated Lebanese citizens within two weeks as the new government of national unity seems unachievable at least at the time being.
While consultations between rival political parties are still ongoing in a bid to reach a breakthrough that would end the cabinet crisis, no progress seems to have been made. Instead, the focus has shifted to the swap deal between Hizbullah and the Zionist entity through a German mediator, a deal which was welcomed by different political parties that hoped it would constitute an entry to real national unity.
In this context, Lebanese President Michel Suleiman hailed the resistance, saying that it has fulfilled a big national achievement that guarantees the return of Lebanese detainees, one of whom has spent decades in "Israeli" prisons, in a signal to Samir Kintar.
Suleiman stressed this achievement confirms the Lebanese unified national will of defending their land, sovereignty and independence. "It also proves that undermining the Lebanese humane issue, particularly those who fell martyrs while defending the territory and whose families are still waiting for their bodies until this moment, is unacceptable."
Suleiman expressed hope that the detainees' issue should constitute the incentive to accelerate the cabinet formation in order to consider other outstanding issues in the country.
For his part, the head of the Democratic Gathering MP Walid Jumblatt said that the return of Lebanese detainees from "Israel" is a national occasion that should bring people together. "I hope it will have a similar effect on other issues," he told Lebanese daily As-Safir.
On Monday, the head of the Change and Reform parliamentary bloc MP Michel Aoun also hailed the deal, congratulating the resistance on the imminent release of Samir Kintar and other detainees. "(Hizbullah Secretary General) Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah told me in July 2006 that the ultimate end of the resistance operation was the liberation of detainees in "Israel"," he said.
MP Saad Hariri also welcomed the deal and called for the event to be "an occasion for national unity." He issued a statement on Monday praising the move to end "long years of injustice, suffering and oppression in the prisons of the "Israeli" enemy," adding that it was an "important achievement for Lebanon and its international friends."
Lebanon prepares to receive liberated Lebanese citizens within two weeks as the new government of national unity seems unachievable at least at the time being.
While consultations between rival political parties are still ongoing in a bid to reach a breakthrough that would end the cabinet crisis, no progress seems to have been made. Instead, the focus has shifted to the swap deal between Hizbullah and the Zionist entity through a German mediator, a deal which was welcomed by different political parties that hoped it would constitute an entry to real national unity.
In this context, Lebanese President Michel Suleiman hailed the resistance, saying that it has fulfilled a big national achievement that guarantees the return of Lebanese detainees, one of whom has spent decades in "Israeli" prisons, in a signal to Samir Kintar.
Suleiman stressed this achievement confirms the Lebanese unified national will of defending their land, sovereignty and independence. "It also proves that undermining the Lebanese humane issue, particularly those who fell martyrs while defending the territory and whose families are still waiting for their bodies until this moment, is unacceptable."
Suleiman expressed hope that the detainees' issue should constitute the incentive to accelerate the cabinet formation in order to consider other outstanding issues in the country.
For his part, the head of the Democratic Gathering MP Walid Jumblatt said that the return of Lebanese detainees from "Israel" is a national occasion that should bring people together. "I hope it will have a similar effect on other issues," he told Lebanese daily As-Safir.
On Monday, the head of the Change and Reform parliamentary bloc MP Michel Aoun also hailed the deal, congratulating the resistance on the imminent release of Samir Kintar and other detainees. "(Hizbullah Secretary General) Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah told me in July 2006 that the ultimate end of the resistance operation was the liberation of detainees in "Israel"," he said.
MP Saad Hariri also welcomed the deal and called for the event to be "an occasion for national unity." He issued a statement on Monday praising the move to end "long years of injustice, suffering and oppression in the prisons of the "Israeli" enemy," adding that it was an "important achievement for Lebanon and its international friends."
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