Lebanese President Michel Sleiman called on the Lebanese to abide by the dissociation policy and not to send arms shipments or fighters to the neighboring country Syria.

Lebanese President Michel Sleiman called on the Lebanese to abide by the dissociation policy and not to send arms shipments or fighters to the neighboring country Syria.

In a statement issued Wednesday, the president called on different parties not to send “arms shipments and fighters to Syria and not to establish any training bases in Lebanon."

He pointed out that the Lebanese should abide by the dissociation policy and not meddle in the Syrian affairs to safeguard the national unity and prevent any local tension.

Lebanese authorities have officially followed the policy to distance the country from the Syrian conflict. But they have also been reluctant to publicly blame militants for fire hitting northern villages and towns near the border with Syria.

Two Lebanese Salafist clerics Salem al-Rafehi and Ahmad al-Asir called on Monday for jihad in Syria to help the armed opposition in their fight against President Bashar al-Assad.

Much of the heaviest fighting has raged near the Lebanese border around al-Qusayr, where activists said government troops retrieved the villages of Radwineyeh and Tel al-Nabi Mando from terrorists’ control.

Since it began in March 2011, Syria's conflict has fueled local and regional tensions, amid Western and Arab unlimited support for the militant opposition groups.