Geagea hails SNC statement, says implementation is more important

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Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea praised on Thursday the statement issued by the Syrian National Council but added “what is more important is that the clauses of the statement be implemented.”

He said the SNC statement will put Lebanese-Syrian relations on the right track.

The SNC issued a statement on Wednesday saying that it wants to “reconsider the agreements signed between Lebanon and Syria and ink new ones which would take into account the interests of both countries, as well as common benefits.”

“The General Secretariat considers the SNC statement as a sign of hope and a courageous step that opens a new page in the Lebanese-Syrian ties based on the sovereignty and independence of both countries,” the statement issued by March 14 General Secretariat said.

The statement also said that “March 14 looks forward to further communication with the SNC.”

The statement also said that the new agreements that SNC wants to sign with Lebanon “will focus on bilateral ties in the framework of correct diplomatic representation.”

The SNC also pledged to “cancel the Lebanese-Syrian Higher Council,” and called for “controlling and demarcating the Lebanese-Syrian border, especially the Shebaa farms [region].”

It also pledged to “end the Syrian intelligence’s influence in Lebanon, and stop Syrian intervention in Lebanese affairs.”

The SNC also vowed to “put end to arms trafficking from Syria to Lebanon.”

The council also said it will “form a Syrian-Lebanese committee to tackle the issue of Lebanese detainees in Syrian jails.”

The statement added that “free, independent and democratic Syria acknowledges Lebanon as a sovereign and independent country.”

Syrian attacks against Lebanon

Geagea criticized the Syrian navy attack on three Lebanese fishermen off the coast of the northern town of Arida earlier this month and called it a “political message to those concerned.”

Unfortunately the message was sent after shedding the blood of Lebanese, he said.

The government should ask for an apology from the Syrian authorities over the Arida incident, Geagea said.

He also stressed that the Lebanese government should stop any attack on Lebanon or resort to the U.N. Security Council if Syria infringes on its sovereignty again, or else the government would be complicit with Syria against its own people, he warned.

About a decision by Lebanon to steer itself clear of the Assad regime’s deadly crackdown on Syrian protestors, Geagea said President Michel Suleiman and Premier Najib Miqati should “give clear indications to Foreign Minister (Adnan Mansour) on a true policy of keeping a distance (from the Syrian) crisis and not just in words.”

The LF leader said that Mansour is not applying the policy of disassociating Lebanon from the Syrian crisis.” adding that Mansour was defending the Syrian regime during the Arab League’s meeting on Syrian crisis?”

The LF leader called for a fair implementation of the law, rejecting the “persecution” of Syrian refugees in Lebanon.

“Lebanon is in its nature the land of freedom and we won’t allow any authority to tarnish its image,” he warned.

Red Diesel scandal

On the scandal of the red diesel that shook Lebanon last week, Geagea urged state-run inspection boards and all judicial agencies to follow up the case until the truth is revealed.

“We can’t continue to live in an atmosphere of scandals,” he said.

An investigation into the case was launched on Tuesday after reports said that the oil refinery in the North distributed to oil companies 8 million liters of red diesel at a subsidized price hours before the end of the government deadline for a one-month LL3,000 subsidy.

The red diesel was later reportedly sold at higher prices giving millions of dollars of benefits to the companies.

Blackouts

Another crisis that has rocked Lebanon is severe electricity cuts throughout the country.

“It is strange that the party calling for demonstrations is the same party that is at the helm of the energy ministry,” Geagea quipped about calls by Energy Minister Jebran Bassil, who is a Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) official, to the people to demonstrate against electricity rationing.

Bassil is accusing several parties of hindering the implementation of his $1.2 billion electricity project that was adopted by the cabinet last September.

“Why wouldn’t the energy minister cut electricity from those not paying bills” as a solution to the power crisis? Geagea wondered. This was a possible reference to Hezbollah and Amal members who reportedly refuse to pay their electric bills

FPM is closely allied with Hezbollah

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34 responses to “Geagea hails SNC statement, says implementation is more important”

  1. spot on! those who criticize or deny your message and vision for Lebanon are clearly foreign agents with self interest above all…God Bless Lebanon and God Bless the Lebanese patriots!

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    spot on! those who criticize or deny your message and vision for Lebanon are clearly foreign agents with self interest above all…God Bless Lebanon and God Bless the Lebanese patriots!

  3. antar2011 Avatar

    i like this man’s manner in tackling an issue. he is always precise and uses simple terms that every lebanese joe understands. he also uses simple logic to analyse a situation that makes him popular outside his “homeground”.

    i agree with him that the SNC statement is very encouraging but we just have to wait to see if it is applied on the ground and no one can blaim the lebanese for been cautious.

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    i like this man’s manner in tackling an issue. he is always precise and uses simple terms that every lebanese joe understands. he also uses simple logic to analyse a situation that makes him popular outside his “homeground”.

    i agree with him that the SNC statement is very encouraging but we just have to wait to see if it is applied on the ground and no one can blaim the lebanese for been cautious.

  5. Mr. Geagea, I encourage you to read some history articles. The SNC are the same people that encouraged the crisis back in the 50’s against the illegitimate government of Kamil Nimer Chamoun, they are the same people that prevented the Lebanese army from finishing up the PLO in the early seventies, they are the same people that forced the Cairo accords on Lebanon. So if I can come to a conclusion they are as bad as the present regime in Syria. 
    Why don’t you worry about the Lebanese instead of the SNC. I don’t know who assigned you the spokesman for the Syrian people. 

    1. MeYosemite Avatar
      MeYosemite

      Interesting reflection, wasn’t Ba’ath party in power then ? Libnan1: sometimes you make good points, except the time when you endorse you know who…

      1. MeYos..that was my point. SNC are all expelled Baath party members. You saw what the Arabs suggested to replace Azaad with, his vice president who is a sunni Baathy!!! I bet our Lebanese Sunnis will be happy with that replacement. I don’t really care for either SNC nor the regime. Let them suffer like we did. I just like the regime to help us reverse what was they imposed on us the TAIF accord. End of the story.

    2. antar2011 Avatar

      anything that talks about syria and lebanon as two seperate independent democratic countries then it must be good….

      you are saying they have bad history…but that’s history….lets just judge them on what they are going to do after Assad…

      some pple just don’t seem to understand that after 15th March 2011, syrian pple are very different from those pre 15th March 2011…..in fact the whole arab world is different post arab spring then pre….there was a sense of arab nationalism…that all arabs are one pple…but post arab spring begining i guess this sense has been replaced as each arab for their own democractic country……it happened with the sunnis in lebanon after Cedar revolution and it is now spread with the arab spring.

      but of course i don’t expect an Aounist understands this changed…the past is brighter for the Aounist i guess…

      in his press conference here, Geagea IS worried about the lebanese…he is saying this statement is good because it is the benefit of all of the lebanese pple if it is put into action.

      1. Very nice statement antar!

        1. antar2011 Avatar

          no worries mate!

          al 7aq youqaal.

      2. antar..Do you have a resume? If so what is on it your past or your future? Stop the nonsense, go read about the Arab spring you are claiming. In Egypt, salafite MPs went to villages and told villagers that if they vote for salafites they will go heaven. Some villagers did not believe it but they voted for the salafites because they did want to take chance of not going to heaven. This is according to an Egyptian friend. Is this what you call change? These are stupid people, I know we have plenty of them in Lebanon.
        Cedar revolution!!! we are the ones that encouraged you and other Lebanese to demonstrate. We are the ones along with some LF that were jailed by your hero Hariri Sr. and his security apparatus headed by no other than Rifi. You all sit and complain about HA, why don’t you go down and demonstrate. You wont do it because we don’t support you this time.    

        1. 5thDrawer Avatar

          Well libnan1 … with a lot of ‘hope’, it won’t be Assad or sectarian despots you’ll be dealing with in Syria.

        2. 5thDrawer Avatar

          Well libnan1 … with a lot of ‘hope’, it won’t be Assad or sectarian despots you’ll be dealing with in Syria.

        3. antar2011 Avatar

          look, you have every right to be hesitant about the results of the elections in egypt/tunisia but you have no right to dismiss the electio result because of something haven’t happened yet. we call for democracy, we believe in free election…but when the result is nto to our liking we start saying naaa we don’t want that anymore?

          here we go again….your friend has no right to speak in the name of villages in egypt…if he felt he was forced to vote for the salafist then it is his own fault…at the end of the day, he is the one who goes behind that curtain and cast his vote without anyone knowing who he voted for… as for him believing that he won’t go to heaven if he did not vote for the salafist…well no one beleives it but him…and you apparently….
          at the end of the day, unlike under Mubarak, if the salafist have showed the pple who voted for them are not good at administring the country then there is always the next election to change that.

          again wait until you see what they do then judge. who are you to say they are stupid pple? have respect for the choice of the pple. An Aounist is the last person who can claim someone are stupid because of their political choice. well this is just so laughable….

          yes we have plently of them [the stupid pple] and they happen to like the colour orange to show their political affiliation.

          excuse me? Harriri put you in jail?…yeah okay…*rolls eyes*

          you may have encouraged us to protest but you left the boat way too early and put your hands in the same person/system you were demonstrating against…in another words you have betrayed your ownselves… nice eh?

          as for protesting, we know when to protest and when we don’t…at least when we protest we know it is not against ourselves that we are protesting against….unlike some looni living in al rabiyeh.

        4. antar2011 Avatar

          look, you have every right to be hesitant about the results of the elections in egypt/tunisia but you have no right to dismiss the electio result because of something haven’t happened yet. we call for democracy, we believe in free election…but when the result is nto to our liking we start saying naaa we don’t want that anymore?

          here we go again….your friend has no right to speak in the name of villages in egypt…if he felt he was forced to vote for the salafist then it is his own fault…at the end of the day, he is the one who goes behind that curtain and cast his vote without anyone knowing who he voted for… as for him believing that he won’t go to heaven if he did not vote for the salafist…well no one beleives it but him…and you apparently….
          at the end of the day, unlike under Mubarak, if the salafist have showed the pple who voted for them are not good at administring the country then there is always the next election to change that.

          again wait until you see what they do then judge. who are you to say they are stupid pple? have respect for the choice of the pple. An Aounist is the last person who can claim someone are stupid because of their political choice. well this is just so laughable….

          yes we have plently of them [the stupid pple] and they happen to like the colour orange to show their political affiliation.

          excuse me? Harriri put you in jail?…yeah okay…*rolls eyes*

          you may have encouraged us to protest but you left the boat way too early and put your hands in the same person/system you were demonstrating against…in another words you have betrayed your ownselves… nice eh?

          as for protesting, we know when to protest and when we don’t…at least when we protest we know it is not against ourselves that we are protesting against….unlike some looni living in al rabiyeh.

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    Mr. Geagea, I encourage you to read some history articles. The SNC are the same people that encouraged the crisis back in the 50’s against the illegitimate government of Kamil Nimer Chamoun, they are the same people that prevented the Lebanese army from finishing up the PLO in the early seventies, they are the same people that forced the Cairo accords on Lebanon. So if I can come to a conclusion they are as bad as the present regime in Syria. 
    Why don’t you worry about the Lebanese instead of the SNC. I don’t know who assigned you the spokesman for the Syrian people. 

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      Interesting reflection, wasn’t Ba’ath party in power then ? Libnan1: sometimes you make good points, except the time when you endorse you know who…

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        MeYos..that was my point. SNC are all expelled Baath party members. You saw what the Arabs suggested to replace Azaad with, his vice president who is a sunni Baathy!!! I bet our Lebanese Sunnis will be happy with that replacement. I don’t really care for either SNC nor the regime. Let them suffer like we did. I just like the regime to help us reverse what was they imposed on us the TAIF accord. End of the story.

    2.  Avatar

      anything that talks about syria and lebanon as two seperate independent democratic countries then it must be good….

      you are saying they have bad history…but that’s history….lets just judge them on what they are going to do after Assad…

      some pple just don’t seem to understand that after 15th March 2011, syrian pple are very different from those pre 15th March 2011…..in fact the whole arab world is different post arab spring then pre….there was a sense of arab nationalism…that all arabs are one pple…but post arab spring begining i guess this sense has been replaced as each arab for their own democractic country……it happened with the sunnis in lebanon after Cedar revolution and it is now spread with the arab spring.

      in his press conference here, Geagea IS worried about the lebanese…he is saying this statement is good because it is the benefit of all of the lebanese pple if it is put into action.

    3.  Avatar

      anything that talks about syria and lebanon as two seperate independent democratic countries then it must be good….

      you are saying they have bad history…but that’s history….lets just judge them on what they are going to do after Assad…

      some pple just don’t seem to understand that after 15th March 2011, syrian pple are very different from those pre 15th March 2011…..in fact the whole arab world is different post arab spring then pre….there was a sense of arab nationalism…that all arabs are one pple…but post arab spring begining i guess this sense has been replaced as each arab for their own democractic country……it happened with the sunnis in lebanon after Cedar revolution and it is now spread with the arab spring.

      in his press conference here, Geagea IS worried about the lebanese…he is saying this statement is good because it is the benefit of all of the lebanese pple if it is put into action.

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        Very nice statement antar!

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          no worries mate!

          al 7aq youqaal.

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        antar..Do you have a resume? If so what is on it your past or your future? Stop the nonsense, go read about the Arab spring you are claiming. In Egypt, salafite MPs went to villages and told villagers that if they vote for salafites they will go heaven. Some villagers did not believe it but they voted for the salafites because they did want to take chance of not going to heaven. This is according to an Egyptian friend. Is this what you call change? These are stupid people, I know we have plenty of them in Lebanon.
        Cedar revolution!!! we are the ones that encouraged you and other Lebanese to demonstrate. We are the ones along with some LF that were jailed by your hero Hariri Sr. and his security apparatus headed by no other than Rifi. You all sit and complain about HA, why don’t you go down and demonstrate. You wont do it because we don’t support you this time.    

        1.  Avatar

          Well libnan1 … with a lot of ‘hope’, it won’t be Assad or sectarian despots you’ll be dealing with in Syria.

        2.  Avatar

          look, you have every right to be hesitant about the results of the elections in egypt/tunisia but you have no right to dismiss the electio result because of something haven’t happened yet. we call for democracy, we believe in free election…but when the result is nto to our liking we start saying naaa we don’t want that anymore?

          here we go agai, your friend….your friend has no right to speak in the name of villages in egypt…if he felt he was forced to vote for the salafist then it is his own fault…at the end of the day, he is the one who goes behind that curtain and cast his vote without anyone knowing who he voted for… as for him believing that he won’t go to heaven if he did not vote for the salafist…well no one beleives it but him…and you apparently… tell him to il3ab ghayra, it is not convincable..

          at the end of the day, unlike under Mubarak, if the salafist have showed the pple who voted for them are not good at administring the country then there is always the next election to change that.

          again wait until you see what they do then judge. who are you to say they are stupid pple? if the pple did not vote fot them they would not have been given a voice…yet, an Aounist who is supporting a person with the present “so bright” and a past “much brighter” then the present…well this is just so laughable….yes we have plently of them and they happen to like the colour orange to show their political affiliation.

          excuse me? Harriri put you in jail?…yeah okay…*rolls eyes*

          you may have encouraged us to protest but you left the boat way too early and put your hands in the same person/system you were demonstrating against…in another words you have betrayed your ownselves… nice eh?
          as for protesting, we know when to protest and when we don’t…at least when we protest we know it is not against ourselves that we are protesting against….unlike some looni living in al rabiyeh.

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        antar..Do you have a resume? If so what is on it your past or your future? Stop the nonsense, go read about the Arab spring you are claiming. In Egypt, salafite MPs went to villages and told villagers that if they vote for salafites they will go heaven. Some villagers did not believe it but they voted for the salafites because they did want to take chance of not going to heaven. This is according to an Egyptian friend. Is this what you call change? These are stupid people, I know we have plenty of them in Lebanon.
        Cedar revolution!!! we are the ones that encouraged you and other Lebanese to demonstrate. We are the ones along with some LF that were jailed by your hero Hariri Sr. and his security apparatus headed by no other than Rifi. You all sit and complain about HA, why don’t you go down and demonstrate. You wont do it because we don’t support you this time.    

  7. I have always found it hard to look past this mans history. ( I am NOT taking a swipe)

    History aside, this man is amongst the more intelligent & competent of any potential future President from the political class.

     @libnan1:disqus   Aoun is ranked 871st just under Micheal the monkey from Beirut Zoo. Basel just missed out on making the list. 🙁

    I suppose compared to Berri, Frangieh,  Jumblat & Karami, Geagea is a reformed man.

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    I have always found it hard to look past this mans history. ( I am NOT taking a swipe)

    History aside, this man is amongst the more intelligent & competent of any potential future President from the political class.

     @libnan1:disqus   Aoun is ranked 871st just under Micheal the monkey from Beirut Zoo. Basel just missed out on making the list. 🙁

    I suppose compared to Berri, Frangieh,  Jumblat & Karami, Geagea is a reformed man.

  9. 5thDrawer Avatar

    This GeaGea makes more sense all the time. If there is ever another election (allowed by 2-seat Hezzy) and he doesn’t get elected, then everyone is an ass.

    1. Yes, his position is one of logic and competence…to be honest, since released he hasn’t missed the opportunity to defend and bolster Lebanon. for some its taking longer than others to realize this…The sooner we all rally our support behind those who are truly fighting for Lebanese Independence the sooner we can get out from under the control of the worlds most hated countries…

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    This GeaGea makes more sense all the time. If there is ever another election (allowed by 2-seat Hezzy) and he doesn’t get elected, then everyone is an ass.

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      Yes, his position is one of logic and competence…to be honest, since released he hasn’t missed the opportunity to defend and bolster Lebanon. for some its taking longer than others to realize this…The sooner we all rally our support behind those who are truly fighting for Lebanese Independence the sooner we can get out from under the control of the worlds most hated countries…

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      Yes, his position is one of logic and competence…to be honest, since released he hasn’t missed the opportunity to defend and bolster Lebanon. for some its taking longer than others to realize this…The sooner we all rally our support behind those who are truly fighting for Lebanese Independence the sooner we can get out from under the control of the worlds most hated countries…

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