Lebanese opposition MPs released a statement calling on the Arab League ahead of its Summit to deter the possibility of a war in Lebanon.
In the statement, the MPs called for “immediate intervention” in Gaza and called to follow “the political process based on the Arab Peace Initiative, declared at the Beirut Summit in 2002. This initiative supports the two-state solution, necessitating the creation of an independent Palestinian state.”
As for the situation in Lebanon, the MPs called for the implementation of United Nations Resolutions 1701, 1559 and 1680, to free South Lebanon from any armed groups that do not represent the Lebanese Army, as well as to mark the border between Lebanon and Israel.
“The Lebanese reject their country being forcefully dragged into a comprehensive war,” the MPs declared, “Lebanon has already been involved, against its will, in a limited war that claimed lives, including children, civilians, and journalists, as well as the displacement of tens of thousands of its people. Lebanese citizens also reject any external interference in their country’s affairs and the seizure of sovereign decisions by an armed internal faction.”
Finally, the statement concluded that the immediate election of a President, “allows the Lebanese state to reclaim its sovereign decisions, starting with the decisions of war and peace.”
