Zahra Fears 'Internal Tutelage' Could Block Taef Implementation
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Lebanese Forces MP Antoine Zahra voiced hopes that efforts to implement the Taef Accord start without any obstruction from what he described as “internal tutelage.”
Addressing mayors of the Batroun area during a lunch banquet on Sunday, Zahra said: “We have always called for the implementation of the Taef accord, the establishment of civil peace, the unification of the country and the reinforcement of the state and its institutions.
“We have been waiting for 27 years, we hope to start the implementation of the agreement during this tenure now that we are over with the external tutelage,” said Zahra in reference to the Syrian tutelage in Lebanon without naming them.
“We hope the internal tutelage, the de-facto forces and policies do not obstruct us," he went on to say.
Wrangling among various political parties over the distribution of portfolios have thwarted the attempts to form a cabinet since the designation of Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri for the task on November 3.
The Taef Accord was an agreement reached to provide the basis for the ending of the civil war and the return to political normalcy in Lebanon.
The 1989 agreement set a time frame for Syrian withdrawal and stipulated that the Syrians withdraw in two years.
05 December 2016, 16:58
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That means he doesn't want to hear from the Shia majority. "When I want your opinion I'll beat it out of you." It seems that some Lebanese Christians regard themselves as colonists who need the local people to hurry up and get civilized or face the consequences. Fortunately these colonists lack the military means to enact any consequences, merely maintaining ties to their ancestral homes in Saudi Arabia, France, and England, whose regimes turn around and enact some bitter consequences on Lebanon. Lebanon should ask itself what England, France, and the king of Saudi Arabia have in mind for Lebanon. What is their idea of stability? The word comes from the Latin "to stand", but is this current "accord", Constitutional Article 24's reservation of half of Parliament for Christian MP's: is this Lebanon standing? Or is someone standing on Lebanon?
