The Guardians of the Cedars Party
issued the following weekly communiqué:
Any discussion about resuming the
dialogue between the March 8 and March 14 parties remains part
of a policy of distraction and diversion if the elements of
success are not built into it, including good intentions, mutual
trust, and good will. In other words, the will of the parties to
the dialogue to relinquish their personal interests for the
national interests.
Everyone knows that those elements
do not exist with the parties to the conflict, even at a minimum
level, and that the person who issued the call for dialogue does
not have the required credibility that enables him to manage the
dialogue because, first, he is a principal party to the conflict
and it is unreasonable that he plays the roles of the opponent
and the arbiter at the same time. Second, because the dialogue
and consultation sessions he previously called for and managed,
suffered a catastrophic failure and their decisions have never
been implemented. Third, because the roles he played have so far
been extremely negative, beginning with his reduction of
Parliament to his own person, shutting its doors and bringing
the democratic process in the country to a halt, and ending with
the repeated and deliberate postponements of the sessions
allocated for the election of a new President, which has led to
the resulting presidential vacuum.
This new-old initiative by the
Speaker of Parliament is, in our opinion, a mere distraction he
invented to kill time with more political drivel and to mislead
domestic and foreign public opinion that he is still the only
man who holds the key to a solution in the Lebanese crisis.
Whet is true of the Speaker is
also true of the Prime Minister who, in turn, distracts people
with his shuttle tours to Arab capitals in search for a solution
where it is not to be found. Everyone knows that the solution
exists somewhere else, namely in the corridors of the Security
Council, and all that the Prime Minister has to do is go there
and address himself to the international community demanding
loud and clear that the Council place Lebanon under UN
protection under Chapter VII.
Any other action is futile and in
vain.
Lebanon,
at your service
Abu Arz
April 11, 2008
