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Geagea Urges Aoun to Act on Govt., Criticizes Bassil's 'Missiles Tour'

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea has urged President Michel Aoun to “personally intervene” to facilitate the formation of the new government, as he criticized the tour that caretaker Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil has recently organized for foreign ambassadors in Lebanon.

“Overcoming the formation crisis requires the personal intervention of the president, who should give each party its legitimate right. I personally call on the president to take this step according to the results of the elections,” Geagea said in an interview with the Central New Agency published Wednesday.

Commenting on Israel's claims about the presence of “Hizbullah missile sites” near Beirut airport and the Lebanese response to the allegations, Geagea warned that “the situation in the region is explosive and the international conflict is huge on several axes and fronts.”

“Amid all of this, verbal responses and media stunts are not beneficial. The president and the prime minister must deal very carefully with what is happening and must warn all parties against taking any step that would pose the least risk to Lebanon,” the LF leader added, in an apparent reference to the Bassil-organized tour.

Separately, Geagea confirmed that “the page will be turned on the past and a new chapter will be opened with the Marada Movement very soon,” describing the relation with the Kataeb Party as “normal.”


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