By Prensa Latina,
Beirut : The Hizbala resistance movement asserted on Thursday that it wants to reach an agreement and re-establish the country, after living a week of strong clashes, which left over 200 deaths.
Naim Kassen, second-in-command of the Lebanese organization, told press in the surrounding southern areas of this capital they are willing to work with the Executive if it is interested, “to build the country.”
We want to reach an agreement “that leads, in the end, to have neither a winner nor a defeated side,” he said.
The Hizbala (God’s Party) top official spoke to the journalists after meeting with the Arab League representatives, who agreed on Sunday to create a commission to mediate in conflict unleashed on May 7 between the opposition and government supporting forces.
In the meeting, the regional organization insisted on putting in practice the Arab initiative, aimed at immediately electing a president, shaping a national unity government and changing the electoral law.
A Hizbala source, which requested anonymity, stated that the commission’s work will be focused on the two last points.
Lebanon has remained without president since November 24, 2007, a situation that has worsened the political crisis that started in 2006, with six government ministers’ resignations, and became aggravated the past week, with armed clashes.
The combats began after Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora ordered to suspend Hizbala’s communication system and dismiss security head of Beirut’s international airport, member of the resistance group.
The measure was interpreted as a declaration of war by God’s Party leader Hassan Nasrallah, who blamed the United States and Israel for wanting to destabilize the tiny Arab State.