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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Wally urges Hizbullah to join calls for independence
2005-02-23
Progressive Socialist Party President Walid Jumblatt urged Hizbullah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah on Monday to join the convoy of Lebanese who are calling for freedom, independence and free decision-making. Jumblatt made the call from his stronghold in Mukhtara, where he commemorated the seventh day of the late former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri's assassination and laid a flower on the tomb of his father Kamal Jumblatt.

Addressing the Syria authorities, Jumblatt called for the dismantling of the security intelligence regime and for it to leave the country. "We want to remain friends with Syria, and we refuse the rule of the intelligence services in Lebanon," he said, adding: "You have killed many but you will never succeed in destroying the people's will." Jumblatt, a leading member of the opposition, ruled out any dialogue that was not based on the Taif Accord and called for the immediate withdrawal of Syrian troops from the country, in a bid to open a new page between the people of Lebanon and Syria. "The Taif is the basis and we will not accept any postponement," he said. Jumblatt said that he regretted the absence of the country's sovereignty in the presence of the Syrian intelligence apparatus and called for a fair investigation into Hariri's death.
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