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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Riachi Says No Negotiations between LF and Hizbullah
2017-02-19
[An Nahar] Lebanese Forces
A Christian political party founded by Bashir Gemayel, who was then bumped off when he was elected president of Leb...
Information Minister Melhem Riachi emphasized on Saturday that contacts with Hizbullah
...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory...
are merely limited to the party's ministers and politicians, the state-run National News Agency reported.

"We do not negotiate with Hizbullah. There are some contacts limited to Hizbullah ministers and deputies," said Riachi during a visit to the eastern city of Zahle where LF MP Toni Abi Khater received him at his residence in the presence of a number of LF politicians.

"There are a lot of differences between us provided these differences do not turn into major conflicts," added Riachi.

Early in January, Lebanese Forces chief Samir Geagea
... Geagea was imprisoned by the Syrians and their puppets for 11 years in a dungeon in the third basement level of the Lebanese Ministry of Defense. He was released after the Cedar Revolution in 2005 ...
dismissed any hostility in ties with Hizbullah, but stressed that dialogue with the party must be based on a clear road-map aimed at building the real state of Leb.

Separately, Riachi hailed ongoing efforts to agree on a new electoral law, he said: "There are genuine efforts to formulate an electoral law that rectifies the damaged Christian representation, lifts injustice without being unfair to others, and preserve everyone's right of everyone, including MP Walid Wally Jumblat
... Druze politician, head of the Progressive Socialist Party, who's been on every side in Leb at least four times. He'll sell you his friends for a dollar, but family comes higher because of shipping and handling...
."
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