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Geagea: March 14 Must Not Make Any Step unless It Serves March 14's Principles, Objectives

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea stressed Friday that the March 14 coalition “must not make any step unless it serves the principles and objectives of March 14.”

“We are the Lebanese Resistance, the Cedar Revolution and March 14,” Geagea told LF members during a party ceremony in Maarab.

“'Lebanon First' means 'March 14 First', because there can be no Lebanon without March 14,” he added.

“'March 14 First' means clinging until martyrdom to the principles of March 14 and not to anything else,” Geagea underlined.

He emphasized that the March 14 camp “must not make any step unless it serves the principles and objectives of March 14.”

“'March 14 First' means carefully and fully heeding the voices of hundreds of thousands of people who took to the squares of freedom on March 14, 2005,” Geagea added.

His remarks come amid a flurry of political talks in the country between parties from both the March 14 and March 8 camps.

The new momentum followed a meeting that was held in Paris between al-Mustaqbal movement leader ex-PM Saad Hariri of March 14 and Marada Movement leader MP Suleiman Franjieh of March 8.

Hariri has also met in Paris with Progressive Socialist Party chief MP Walid Jumblat and Kataeb Party leader MP Sami Gemayel.

The Franjieh-Hariri meeting has sparked intense speculation that they agreed to the nomination of the Marada chief as president.

Y.R.


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