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Originally Posted by vegojimbo  بري: يمكن أن نصل في 25 الجاري إلى نتيجة إذا حصل توافق بين السعودية وسوريا 20 آذار 2008 رئيس المجلس النيابي نبيه بري توقّع بحسب ما نقل عنه زوّاره لصحيفة الأخبار دخول الأزمة مرحلة جمود إلى ما بعد القمة العربية. وقال: بالنسبة إلى موضوع رئاسة الجمهورية، يمكن أن نصل في 25 الجاري إلى نتيجة إذا حصل توافق بين السعودية وسوريا. أمّا بعد هذا التاريخ، فننتظر نتيجة القمة.
source: tayyar.org
I honestly expect a reply from FPM about Berri's statement bc as far as FPM goes, there is a deadlock in the presidency bc of internal issues and not bc Syria and KSA are pissed off at each other.
Moreover, HA have been stating the opposite of Berri's statement and claiming that whatever KSA and Syria agree on, the solution is in Lebanon bc the opposition's demands emanate from lebanese concerns.
Berri is saying the opposition is a pawn to Syria and that the lebanese conflict is only a manifestation of a syrio-saudi tension. Now of course this tension has had an impact on the lebanese scene, but it's not the source at all. The demands of the opposition are lebanese. Let Berri prove how they are not.
Now, I will restrict my talk about FPM. FPM's position on the presidency and the current deadlock has been due to concerns it considered purely lebanese. How is a new electoral law a syrian concern? How is having equal say in lebanese affairs a syrian demand? How is asking for transparency a syrian point? How is asking for accountability a syrian act too? And how can Syria have any influence over FPM?
So if anything, Berri should talk about him and his party alone if he feels he has no problems in case Syria and KSA agree, but let him not make it sound like he is talking in the name of the entire opposition. Whether Syria and KSA agree or not, this will not push the opposition to drop its demands.
Mr Berri, where the heck are ur lebanese concerns? u've just basically stated that the entire demands of the opposition are bogus and only a facade of a syrio-saudi disagreement. That sir is not true and u have no right to say it in the name of the entire opposition. I expect FPM to reply to this bogus nonesense! |
Berri could have formulated his statement better. Instead of saying the Syria and Saudi Arabia need to make up so that we see a Lebanese President, he should have said that Saudi Arabia needs to "encourage" the loyalists to reach a solution with the opposition, represented by GMA. The way he put it can be easily interpreted that each country is playing with the Lebanese like pawns, which is half of the truth.