BEIRUT: Lebanese must focus on abolishing sectarianism in their country to allow for peaceful, secular existence, Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil said during a tour of the Western Bekaa Sunday.
He also lauded the resistance movement for its successes against Israel, and called for all Lebanese to apply the principle of resistance to domestic matters, like injustice and corruption.
“We have to surpass coexistence so that existence becomes unified,” he said during a visit to the village of Khirbet Qanafar, expressing hopes that the country would move towards becoming an equal and civil state bare of any form of sectarianism.
“Despite our defense of Christians, we are secularists and we defend against injustice whether it is practiced against Muslims or Christians,” he added.
Bassil and a delegation of Free Patriotic Movement bloc members launched a tour of the western Bekaa Valley Sunday.
During a visit to the village of Mashgara, where he was welcomed by Hezbollah official Sheikh Mohammad Hamadi, the foreign minister expressed hopes that everyone would resist Israel, and resist injustice and corruption for the sake of Lebanon.
“The resistance doesn’t take permission from anyone and when it does take permission then it’s no longer a resistance,” he said.
“Lebanon has the capacity to continue with the versatility that the village of Mashgara embodies,” he added, in reference to the village’s several religious groups that include Melkites, Orthodox Christians, and Shiites.
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