National News Agency
Grand Jaafari Mufti, Sheikh Ahmad Kabalan, said in a statement on Sunday, that the sovereigntist rescue solution for Lebanon passes only through parliament, and not through any international conference.
He stressed that the sole side to make history or lose it are the parliamentary blocs themselves, and not any other entity, adding that "Lebanon is now awaiting the political choices of the parliamentary blocs...and national partnership and parliamentary resolution is a necessity to save Lebanon, for the beatification of Lebanon to the outside is forbidden."
His words came in response to Maronite Patriarch Rahi's call for an international conference on Lebanon during Sunday Mass at Bkerke this morning.
Sheikh Kabalan deemed that any international conference dissolves the Lebanese sovereignty, and trying to resort to international decisions kills Lebanon, recalling that the civil war is an example of this.
He added that the crisis is very complicated, and both local and international factors are intertwined, while the internal paralysis has reached its peak.
Kabalan stressed that the future president must be a consensual president for all the Lebanese and elected based on Lebanon’s interests first and foremost, and having the ability to take sovereign decisions pertaining to political, monetary, oil, electrical and national rescue.
"The interest of Christians and Muslims is to agree on a national president through Parliament and implement a project for a strong state, national partnership and effective constitutional institutions away from international circulars that deal with Lebanon as a playground for deals and an arena for settlements,” Sheikh Kabalan concluded.
He stressed that the sole side to make history or lose it are the parliamentary blocs themselves, and not any other entity, adding that "Lebanon is now awaiting the political choices of the parliamentary blocs...and national partnership and parliamentary resolution is a necessity to save Lebanon, for the beatification of Lebanon to the outside is forbidden."
His words came in response to Maronite Patriarch Rahi's call for an international conference on Lebanon during Sunday Mass at Bkerke this morning.
Sheikh Kabalan deemed that any international conference dissolves the Lebanese sovereignty, and trying to resort to international decisions kills Lebanon, recalling that the civil war is an example of this.
He added that the crisis is very complicated, and both local and international factors are intertwined, while the internal paralysis has reached its peak.
Kabalan stressed that the future president must be a consensual president for all the Lebanese and elected based on Lebanon’s interests first and foremost, and having the ability to take sovereign decisions pertaining to political, monetary, oil, electrical and national rescue.
"The interest of Christians and Muslims is to agree on a national president through Parliament and implement a project for a strong state, national partnership and effective constitutional institutions away from international circulars that deal with Lebanon as a playground for deals and an arena for settlements,” Sheikh Kabalan concluded.
