An army barred by no red lines is mostly needed, President Michel Sleiman, alluded during his marking of the First Festival of Alphabetics and Poetry in Jbeil today.

An army barred by no red lines is mostly needed, President Michel Sleiman, alluded during his marking of the First Festival of Alphabetics and Poetry in Jbeil today.

Let's work to boost army capability while restoring its exclusive monopoly over guns, he exclaimed.

While Baabda Declaration met with universal international approval, state organs based on administrative decentralization must be revived, he retorted.

The immunization of the Constitution necessitates however reassessing inherent irrelevant problematics as well as finalizing discussions pertaining to the defensive strategy, he went on.