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| MP Shohayeb Rejects Britain's Listing of Hizbullah as Terrorist Group |
| 2008-07-14 |
| Democratic Gathering member MP Akram Shohayeb said Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah's recent remarks were "calm and rational, which require a response in kind." "This should have happened immediately after the Doha Accord. A lot of time has been lost," Shohayeb told Naharnet. He said obtaining the release of Lebanese prisoners from Israeli jails and regaining bodies of "martyrs" who had fallen in action against the Jewish State "played a major role in the call (by Nasrallah) "for rapprochement between the various Lebanese communities backing the concept of the state, state logic and state institutions." Nasrallah's recent message sets the stage for renewed "pumping of Lebanese blood into Hizbullah's veins," he added. Shohayeb said the message made by Nasrallah during a press conference on Wednesday "is the first positive step towards dialogue and building state institutions after the Doha Accord." He expressed the belief that "meetings would be held soon between factions from March 14 and factions from March 8." He did not elaborate on the remark. "Victory achieved by return of the prisoners should be supported by backing the state," Shohayeb added. Asked to comment on Britain's decision to list Hizbullah's armed branch as a terrorist organization, Shohayeb said: "We never recognized the definition of Hizbullah set by the United States or any European country." "There is a great difference between disagreeing with Hizbullah on domestic issues and accepting, God forbid, the logic of some states, including the United States," Shohayeb stressed. "We do not accept this (UK) decision," he declared. Shohayeb said the new cabinet would "eventually be formed. But it wouldn't have time to be a true national unity cabinet in the political sense. It would be preoccupied with setting the stage for the parliamentary elections" scheduled for 2009. |
| Posted by:Fred |