[An Nahar] Hizbullah announced Sunday that it will play a "positive" role in the process of forming a new cabinet after MP Tammam Salam was appointed as prime minister-designate on Saturday.Hizbullah "wants to be together with March 14 in the same national position in order to confront the Israeli threats," said Sheikh Nabil Qaouq, the deputy head of the party's Executive Council, during a memorial service in the southern town of Kawthariyet al-Siyyad.
"A stance is needed ... and it is unacceptable and unpatriotic from any party in Leb to offer Israel a stance that relieves it and makes it happy," Qaouq added.
He stressed that Hizbullah is "keen on pacifying the domestic political atmosphere and defusing the sectarian tensions."
"The consensus over naming PM-designate Tammam Salam is an exceptional, positive chance that must be grabbed and boosted, because this consensus created a positive shock amid the sectarian and security tensions and political divisions," Qaouq added.