BEIRUT: The four French lawmakers who visited Syrian President Bashar Assad in Damascus met with a Hezbollah official in Beirut Wednesday, the party announced.
Led by Gerard Bapt of the ruling French Socialist Party, the delegation met with Hezbollah’s International Relations Officer Ammar Musawi.
The delegation had met with Assad in Damascus Wednesday morning.
According to a statement released by Hezbollah’s media office, Musawi highlighted in the meeting that the world’s priority should be combating terrorism and fighting extremist groups.
He said international efforts should also be focused on “stopping all forms of help and support that the [fundamentalist groups] receive from some regional powers," noting that the jihadi threat has reached “everyone.”
Musawi also pointed to the “ongoing cooperation between Israel and the terrorist groups, especially in the Syrian Golan area.”
He said this cooperation revealed the Israeli plan to segregate the region’s states and its societies.
The French lawmakers’ visit to Assad was not approved by the French Parliament and contradicted official state policies, French officials had announced.
A member of the delegation, lawmaker Jacques Myard, said the visit did not mean embracing Assad, but said “we don’t believe we can fight the Islamic State (ISIS) without Syria.”
He said certain countries France considered allies in the region were not playing their part in the battle against Islamist militants.
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