NNA - Why talk to one group wielding arms, leading Lebanese Forces' parliamentarian Antoine Zahra exclaimed during an intervention on Voice of Lebanon radio station talkshow today. The significance of international resolutions namely the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution # 1559, lies in honouring rather than ignoring them, Zahra added. Pro- March 8 government at that time only acknowledged that part of 1559 pertaining to the Israeli withdrawal while relegating the disarming of Hizbullah to the negotiating table, he went on. Hassan Nasrullah's ironclad fisted speech coupled with an effective attrition and sapping of the energies of the state by his talk about a so-called defensive strategy, Zahra said.



With respect to UN resolutions over Lebanon he recalled Palestinian Right of Return of all refugees under Resolution # 194 and that with all due respect to the president, talks before the party gives up on its weapons would be impossible. The president must duly ingather his flock including that part of the people who chose the juriscult of the learned imam rather than that of full Lebanese sovereignty, Zahra concluded.



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