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| Hezbollah MP urges US envoy's expulsion |
| 2008-05-07 |
| In reaction to Walid Jumblatt's call for the ouster of Iran's envoy, Hezbollah MP al-Haj has called for the expulsion of the US envoy. The Hezbollah MP, Hussein al-Haj, said that the Progressive Socialist Party leader, Walid Jumblatt, has aimed his arrow at Iran, calling for the expulsion of the Iranian ambassador to Lebanon; but it is the envoy whose country supplies Israel with weapons to kill and displace Palestinians that should be expelled from Lebanon. Jumblatt's actions are not to the benefit of Lebanon; it only favors the Israelis and impedes the emergence of a Lebanese consensus over the establishment of a national unity government and the passing of a new election law, PRESS TV's Beirut correspondent quoted al-Hajj as saying. The Hezbollah representative in the Lebanese parliament slammed his country's ruling party, saying that the existing illegal government aims to weaken the labor unions and trample on the rights of workers. Since the commencement of his term as prime minister, Fuad Siniora's government has done nothing of any value, he stated, adding that it has only burdened the country with a back-breaking external debt to the tune of billions of dollars. Addressing the Progressive Socialist Party leader, al-Haj noted that what the party's leader has said actually is a result of Lebanon's inequitable election law, adding, "We are not responsible for your sins." |
| Posted by:Fred |