Al-Zein says Barrack paper 'scary', govt. to discuss army plan on Sep. 2
Environment Minister Tamara al-Zein of the Amal Movement has revealed in an interview on Al-Jadeed TV that “the cabinet session in which the Lebanese Army will present its plan” for monopolizing arms across the country “will be held on September 2.”
“No one knows the content of this plan,” al-Zein added.
Referring to the two cabinet sessions that witnessed a walkout by the ministers of Amal and Hezbollah in protest at the government’s decisions on Hezbollah’s disarmament, al-Zein said “the two cabinet sessions should have been postponed until securing consenus among the parties.”
“The discussion of U.S. envoy Tom Barrack’s paper resembled a surrenders,” al-Zein added, noting that “there had been a tacit agreement to postpone the clause on army monopoly which was not honored.”
She added: “Speaker Nabih Berri will try until the end to prevent Lebanon from reaching a clash or tensions.”
She also reassured that “it is totally impossible to witness inter-Lebanese fighting.”
As for Barrack’s paper, al-Zein said “the details of Barrack’s paper are scary and each clause contains a trap.”
“The Lebanese Army must approach the plan in a calculated manner and must discuss it with President Joseph Aoun, Speaker Nabih Berri and PM Nawaf Salam,” she added.
Source: Naharnet
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