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Geagea urges state to take decisive action if Hezbollah refuses to disarm

From Naharnet · () English

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  • Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea called on the Lebanese state to take decisive action if Hezbollah does not disarm.
  • In an annual speech, Geagea said Lebanon’s sovereignty must not be obstructed by intimidation, delay, or compromise.

Samir Geagea says Lebanon has reached what he calls the “dawn of sovereignty” and must now ensure that the state controls its territory and decisions.

The dawn of sovereignty has undoubtedly broken.

· Samir GeageaGeagea described Lebanon’s political moment in an annual speech.

The Lebanese Forces leader warned that his party and its allies would not allow anyone to block that emergence. He listed bullying the state and Lebanese citizens, appeasement, procrastination, stalling, and temporary solutions among the methods he said must be rejected.

We will not allow anyone to obstruct its emergence, whether through bullying the state and the free, sovereign Lebanese, or through appeasement, procrastination, stalling, and patchwork solutions.

· Samir GeageaHe said the Lebanese Forces and its allies would oppose efforts to block state sovereignty.

Geagea made the remarks in an annual speech commemorating the “Martyrs of the Lebanese Resistance.” He urged the state to take decisive action if Hezbollah does not disarm.

Sovereign over its land and its decisions.

· Samir GeageaGeagea stated how the Lebanese state should exercise authority.
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