Hariri: Hizbullah has a Will to Contain Repercussions of May 7
Mustaqbal Movement leader Saad Hariri on Friday accused Syria of exporting terror to neighboring states, said Hizbullah has the “will to contain” repercussions of its May attack in Beirut and rejected expanding the list of participants in the Conference on National Dialogue.
Hariri, in an interview with a Russian Television network, said “Terror is strictly made by the Syrian regime.”
“I challenge them to accept an international investigation committee to expose who spreads terror to where, who spreads terror to Iraq and Lebanon and who has camps for training terrorists.
“If they don’t want an international investigation committee, I challenge them to accept an Arab committee,” Hariri stressed.
Commenting on the recent U.S. raid on a target in Syria, Hariri said: “Let them lodge a complaint with the U.N. Security council. Why didn’t they do that?”
“Israel had raided a Syrian Nuclear facility, which they (Syrians) say is not as such. Why didn’t they lodge a complaint with the U.N. Security Council?” Hariri added.
“Let the world know what has happened,” he stressed.
Hariri said his recent meeting with Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah was a “very good meeting marked by frankness and a revision of what happed during the past three years and a half.”
The talks were also marked by “different viewpoints and principles,” he said.
“There is a will and attempt by Hizbullah and Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah to contain what has happened. We also want to contain what has happened,” he added.
“I believe that what happened on May 7 was a lesson from which the opposition realized that nothing changes. May 7 signaled collapse of Lebanon’s principles, dialogue … and the right to be different,” According to Hariri.
“Repercussions of that day persist and would persist in the future,” Hariri stressed.
The forthcoming parliamentary elections, scheduled for the spring of 2009, would “reflect the people’s response to what has happened,” he added.
Asked if Mustaqbal Movement would go into an alliance with Hizbullah in the forthcoming elections, Hariri said: “straight no.”
He said the March 14 alliance would go into the competition with unified tickets to defend its concept of “Lebanon first.”
In answering a question about demands by Hizbullah and allies to expand the list of participants in the Conference on National Dialogue, Hariri said: “I’m against it.”
