By KUNA
Beirut : The Lebanese majority called Friday for the normalization of relations with Syria, and said it was committed to the Arab initiative and the Taef Accord.
The majority, in a political document released by the so-called March 14 force, said the Lebanese state has the right to possess military force and that the army should be commanded by a single authority, and “not two different authorities, the authority of the Lebanese state and the authority of the foreign country.” MP Fares Saeed, who read the document at a news conference, called for turning a new page in the relations with Syria by normalizing ties with the regime in Damascus.
This required that Syria announce the independence of Lebanon, respect the sovereignty of Lebanon through opening of embassies and demarcation of borders, said Saeed, as well as to stop dealing “with Lebanon as if it is a province.” The document called for establishing a new phase between the Lebanese and Palestinian people, commencing Lebanese-Palestinian dialogue, banning the permanent settlement of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon by urging them to return to their homes.
The weapons carried by the Palestinians living in Lebanon should be controlled by the Lebanese state, said Saeed.
He said that national unity was the sole mean to strengthen independence and construction of the modern democratic state on the basis of the Taef Accord.
Saeed said the resistance was a backup for the Lebanese people to strengthen the power of the state.
The document said that Israel and Iran “are trying to control destiny of Arabs and that Israel is providing international protection for the Syrian regime.” MP Sameer Al-Jesr said the revolution that took place on March 14 2005, had “ejected the (Syrian) regime, holding free elections and formed a government which worked on the establishment of an international tribunal to try killers of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
The members of the March 14 force are holding a general conference discussing the Taef Accord, which was signed in Saudi Arabia in 1989, the relations between Lebanon on one hand with Syria, Palestine, Iran and the world on the other.