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Nasrallah: We will be asking in talks 'how do we protect Lebanon?'
Hizbullah will be heading to the third round of the national dialogue with one major question for all participants on the round table: "How can we protect Lebanon?"
Most people would tell you that's why you have an army...
Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah posed the question in a speech during a Shiite religious event Monday. Lebanon "is a small country with a very strong and well-armored enemy state as a neighbor," Nasrallah said. "Israel also has very strong support from the international community headed by the U.S."

Participants in the national dialogue, which will kick off Wednesday, will be discussing the resistance's weapons and the presidential issue. Nasrallah said: "We will not head to the round table with the notion that we shall never disarm, because that wouldn't be a dialogue. Nor will we accept that others come to the dialogue with the notion that they will be disarming the resistance, because it wouldn't be a dialogue. We will go there and discuss evidence and events and hopefully will try to reach a solution that accomplishes the best for Lebanon." He added: "There never was any talk of a deal being made to keep the resistance's weapons in exchange for ousting [President Emile] Lahoud."

Nasrallah also said: "I think that the table of discussion should also include socio-economic matters, and not only political ones. I believe that it is important that we try to find a solution to the unemployment problem in the country ... to ask questions such as why the most profitable economic sector, the telecommunications sector, is being privatized."
Posted by: Fred 2006-03-21
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