Mustaqbal Says Pompeo's Visit Carried 'Double Message'
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's visit to Lebanon carried a “double message,” al-Mustaqbal parliamentary bloc said on Tuesday.
The first message was about “the growing U.S. pressure on Iran” and the second was about “the United States' intention to maintain its support for Lebanese state institutions, topped by the army and the Internal Security Forces,” the bloc said in a statement issued after its weekly meeting.
Stressing that “the only way to protect Lebanon from the repercussions of the regional conflict is to put the national interest ahead of everything else,” Mustaqbal called for “everyone's commitment to the dissociation policy” and to “the full implementation of Resolution 1701,” which ended the 2006 war between Israel and Hizbullah.
Also referring to Pompeo's visit, the bloc urged the U.S. administration to “give utmost importance to Lebanon's stability, economy and banking sector in any steps that it might later decide to take” against Hizbullah.
Separately, the bloc warned of “the repercussions of the U.S. president's signature of a decision on Israel's sovereignty over the Syrian Golan Heights,” saying it was a move that “lacks the minimum level of wisdom and diplomacy in addressing the region's crises.”
“It is part of the wrong policies that jeopardize regional stability, in the vein of the previous decision to consider occupied Arab Jerusalem as Israel's eternal capital,” Mustaqbal added.
Source: Naharnet
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