Al-Rahi Hopes for Success of National Dialogue
Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi expressed hope on Sunday that a National Dialogue that President Michel Suleiman had called for would succeed.
Al-Rahi also hoped in his sermon that the all-party talks would lead to the adoption of a new national pact that would create a “Lebanese Spring.”
Suleiman called on Thursday for the resumption of the National Dialogue in June to defuse mounting tension.
Sources have said that the president wants to put on the dialogue agenda the arms of the resistance in terms of the defense strategy and the urgent issue of the weapons used in the latest deadly gunbattles between pro- and anti-Syrian regime supporters in Beirut and the northern city of Tripoli.
But the March 14 opposition has conditioned its participation in the all-party talks on the attempt to resolve the issue “of all the weapons outside the state’s jurisdiction.”
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