Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Miqati reassured Thursday the rightness of the disassociation policy that Lebanon has adopted in dealing with the Syrian developments.
Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Miqati reassured Thursday the rightness of the disassociation policy that Lebanon has adopted in dealing with the Syrian developments, hoping that the neighboring country “attains stability and unity of its land and people, and regains its role among the Arab states especially in confronting the Israeli enemy who is still occupying precious Arab lands”.
Speaking during the inauguration of the Second Regional Conference for the Lebanese Army's Center for Strategic Research and Studies, PM Miqati pointed out that “the major goal that the Arab states should have is to support our just causes, on top of which is the Palestinian cause and the Palestinian people’s right to establish their own independent state with its capital the holy Al-Quds.”
Miqati tackled the latest developments in the Arab world indicating that some of them were costly on the humanitarian and economic level.
“We hoped that changes took place without bloodshed and the target of economic and developmental capacities in those countries,” he said.
The Lebanese prime minister considered that “in addition to the internal situations and the ambiguous relation between people and regimes, the democratic regimes’ experience and the freedom, equality, and social justice that these should implement, motivated people for demanding a decent living.”
“The responsibility now falls on the new regimes that should look positively at these changes and eliminate the concern that erupted due to the emergence of sectarian and tribal fanaticism,” Miqati added, indicating that “it was possible to avoid negative results from the public movements, if the revolts’ real goals were recognized and if a peaceful and responsible dialogue was made.”
Referring to the Lebanese experience, PM Miqati pointed out that “our dialogue and agreement on the Taef accord, which ended years of fighting and bloodshed is an example that could be followed. No matter how much the conflict intensified, it would not present permanent solutions but would rather establish more division and destruction.”
From here, the Lebanese PM explained that “our decision to disassociate ourself from the regional developments was clear and firm. Lebanon has chosen to respect its brotherly peoples’ freedom and right to choose their regimes without any foreign intervention.”
“No one can lure us into changing our disassociation decision, and all kinds of political, security, or economic pressures, whether imposed from inside our outside, could not force us to take decisions or steps that would expose the Lebanese unity and fixed positions to danger,” he stressed.
