Gemayel says Zahle cannot bear any more internal struggle

by **Admin** Sun Apr 27, 2008 4:58 am

Former
president and Kataeb leader Amin Gemayel said that Zahle could not bear
any more internal struggle. He also said he has received MP Elias
Skaff’s initiative “positively.”

Gemayel’s
statements came at the sidelines of a meeting at the Kataeb leader’s
home in Bikfaya, where former leaders of the Kataeb party, former MPs
and popular delegations came to offer condolences over the deaths of
two party members, who were killed in a shootout Sunday in Zahle.

Gemayel
commented on recent media reports of an exchange of letters between
Syria and Israel, saying such negotiations had been going on for over a
year.

In
response to Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Mouallem’s claim that the
participants in the Kuwait meeting intended to internationalize the
Lebanese crisis, Gemayel said the Lebanese dossier was “in the
intensive care unit at the United Nations.”

“The
evidence of that is the resolutions which have been adopted, from 1559
to 1701,” he added. Gemayel underlined UN backing for the International
Tribunal as one of most important decisions made by the UN Security
Council.

On
the interception of a UNIFIL patrol in the southern Lebanon by armed
gunmen last month, which UNIFIL spokesperson Yasmina Bouziane revealed
on Wednesday, Gemayel said there was clearly a “state-within-a-state”
in the South.

Gemayel
said Speaker Nabih Berri’s call for renewed dialogue was an all-or-none
deal. “It’s either accepting the full basket or murder.”