BEIRUT: The Future bloc reiterated Thursday its insistence that the policy statement be based on the Baabda Declaration and align with the priorities laid out by the National Charter unveiled by the Maronite Church earlier this month.
The bloc also condemned the Israeli attack on a Hezbollah target near the Lebanese-Syrian border earlier this week, calling for “clear information about the nature and place of the attack.”
“The bloc stresses the importance of the new government succeeding in creating a ministerial statement based on consensual points, mainly the Baabba Declaration... and the Bkirki Charter,” said the bloc in a statement issued following their weekly meeting.
“The government should also confirm its adherence to the disassociation policy and to preserving the country’s independence and the sovereignty of the state over all Lebanese territories as well as its rights to confront attacks and violations from the Israeli enemy or any other party.”
The Baabda Declaration affirms Lebanon’s neutrality toward regional conflicts, especially the war in Syria. The Bkirki Charter, unveiled by the Maronite Church earlier this month, calls for holding the presidential elections on time and urges political rivals to place national interests above personal ones.
A ministerial committee working on drafting the new government’s policy statement is set to resume meeting Friday as differences over the issue persist between the country’s political rivals.
The bloc also condemned late Monday’s Israeli airstrike that hit a Hezbollah target on the Syrian-Lebanese border.
“The bloc denounced such blatant aerial attack in the eastern border area of Lebanon and it urges the Lebanese Army and security agencies to offer clear information about the nature and place of the attack so that the Lebanese state can take the required stances and measures against this attack,” the bloc said.
Hezbollah confirmed that Israeli warplanes bombarded a Hezbollah area on the Lebanese-Syrian border near the Janta region and vowed to respond to the attack “in the right time and place.”
The Future also denounced a suicide attack over the weekend at a checkpoint in Hermel, northeast Lebanon, and reiterated the need for Hezbollah to withdraw from the war in Syria.
“The bloc emphasizes once again that confronting the wave of terrorism affecting Lebanese citizens needs a national plan based on the withdrawal of Hezbollah from Syria... as well as full [state] control of the Lebanese border and closing illegitimate border crossings,” Future said.
The Hermel bombing, claimed by the Al-Qaeda-linked Nusra Front in Lebanon, killed Army officer Elias Khoury, soldier Hamzeh Faitruny and Mohammad Ayyoub, a civilian, and wounded 17 others.
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