Lebanese government crisis continues
A joint statement issued by the coalition of the Amal movement and Hizbullah said that the leadership of the two movements stress commitment to the content of the agreement which was agreed upon with the chairman of al-Mustaqbal (future) trend in the Lebanese parliament Saad al-Hariri.
This came following a meeting that included the leaderships of the two movements in Ein al-Tineh in Beirut after which they stressed they were waiting for translating this agreement into practical measures. The two sides had reached an agreement with Hariri and said that he considers the weapons of Hizbullah as legal as long as the Shabaa Farms are occupied and the Lebanese prisoners are in the Israeli jails.
The international relations officials in Hizbullah Nawaf al-Musawi said that the current government was formed according to a political coalition that included written rules and understandings, and al-Musawai threw the ball in the court of the majority in the Lebanese government saying it has to implement these understandings.
Concerning the possibility of the resignation of the ministers of Hizbullah and Amal from the government in case the agreement is not implemented, al-Musawi said that the coalition of Amal and Hizbullah has not violated the agreement, and that if the situation continues, the two movements will reconsider their positions and therefore change the political map, noting that this situation is not favored by others.
However, sources in Hizbullah announced on Thursday that the coalition of Amal and Hizbullah is approaching the announcement of a decisive position that will be conducive to the resignation of their ministers from the government with the continued governmental crisis ongoing since two weeks.
The two movements suspended the membership of its ministers in the government over differences pertinent to the formation of an international court to investigate the murder of Rafiq al-Hariri and the implementation of the Lebanese part of the UN Security Council resolution no. 1559 that calls for dismantling Hizbullah weapons and the other armed groups in Lebanon.
A governmental source said that the Lebanese prime minister Fouad Siniora handed over a draft project agreed to by other political sides stating to keep the implementation of the Lebanese part of UN resolution 1559 as an internal national dialogue issue.