BEIRUT: The proposed dialogue between Hezbollah and Future Movement will be aimed at maintaining the existing political truce and coexistence through Prime Minister Tammam Salam’s national interest government, despite sharp divisions over internal and regional issues, Al-Liwaa newspaper said Wednesday.
The paper quoted an unnamed March 14 lawmaker as saying that Speaker Nabih Berri, a driving force behind the dialogue, had asked Future Movement to propose an agenda for the talks which he would relay to Hezbollah’s leadership.
The lawmaker said at least four key items would figure on the agenda, including the preservation of the existing truce and relative understanding over nonpolitical internal affairs, including social and economic issues.
Another item would be the discussion of the electoral law with the aim of achieving agreement over the best formula to be passed in Parliament, the source said.
Agreement on a conciliatory presidential candidate, as both parties contend that the persisting presidential vacuum is harmful for all, and on the post-presidential election phase and on the formation of a new government which could be headed by Future chief former Prime Minister Saad Hariri.
Big hopes are being pinned on the upcoming dialogue, which is expected to ease internal tensions. The Future bloc expressed hope after a meeting Tuesday that the proposed dialogue would lead to a “national settlement and agreement on the next president.”
Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rai applauded the move, describing it as the start of exiting from the dark tunnel.
Hariri is expected to outline the Future Movement’s guidelines for dialogue with Hezbollah Thursday on Marcel Ghanem’s leading TV talk show, Kalam Al Nas.
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