The Kataeb party reiterated on Thursday its “total support” for the mission led by the five-nation group known as the Quintet (United States, France, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Qatar) aimed at breaking the presidential deadlock that has persisted since October 2022 and that is “affecting all the state’s institutions.”
“A rapid solution must be found to solve this issue,” said former minister Alain Hakim, who led the Kataeb delegation that visited the Mufti of the Republic, Sheikh Abdul Latif Derian, to present their greetings on the occasion of Fitr.
Hakim said the delegation agreed with the Sunni religious dignitary on what sovereignty implies, particularly with regard to legal weapons, in allusion to the principle that the possession of arms should be under the monopoly of the Lebanese Armed Forces, “which are the only ones capable of getting Lebanon out of the current crisis.”
