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Press Release from
fourteen Lebanese Diaspora
Organizations
and Clubs addressing the painful unfolding events in Lebanon
Toronto – Canada,
July 17, 2006
Iran and Syria Must
be Held Fully Responsible for the Situation in Lebanon,
and the Hezbollah Leadership Must be Brought to Justice
We, the undersigned activists in the countries of the Lebanese
Diaspora, and on behalf of the organizations and clubs we represent,
express our deepest regrets for the mounting human losses among civilians
that our homeland Lebanon is suffering as a result of the destructive
military confrontations that are ongoing on its soil between Israel and
the fundamentalist Hezbollah group. Those confrontations were imposed on
the country against the will of all segments of the Lebanese people and
without any say or decision by the Lebanese government in the matter, as
the Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora has admitted publicly and
repeatedly over the past four days.
We offer our most sincere condolences to the relatives and families of the
innocent victims, and we pray for the prompt recovery of the wounded. We
declare our full solidarity with our people who are subjected, as we
speak, to imminent danger at this moment of the history of Lebanon. Our
homeland has been transformed by terrorist and fundamentalist
organizations into a war arena for the execution of plans and designs dictated
by their sponsors in Tehran and Damascus.
We affirm the necessity for an immediate intervention by the United
Nations and the Free World in order to secure a ceasefire on the basis of
the full implementation of all clauses of UN resolution 1559 and its
corollaries, after issuing a binding mechanism for such an implementation
by the United Nations Security Council in accordance with applicable
international laws.
We reject the military and terrorist hegemony that is imposed on the
Lebanese people by the Hezbollah group and its sponsors in Iran and
Damascus and the full spectrum of regional and international terrorist
and fundamentalist organizations. We also categorically reject the
shedding of a single drop of Lebanese blood on the altar of regional
interests and foreign alliances. We call on the international community
and the Arab countries to move quickly to end the acts of violence and to
condemn terrorism and its destructive adventurism from the standpoint of
the right of Lebanon to sovereignty, independence and free
decision-making.
We consider the Lebanese Government responsible for legalizing Hizbollah's
militia under what is called "resistance" and for granting this militia
privileges over other citizens and for conceding parts of the national
territory to its terror networks. In addition, we reiterate our
condemnation of the Government offering portfolios to representatives of
Terror militias. We hold the Lebanese government.
We demand the resignation of the Ministers representing the Hezbollah
group, the suspension of their representative members in the Lebanese
Parliament, and their prosecution for the crimes they have committed
against Lebanon and its people.
We request the United Nations to issue a resolution condemning Iran and
Syria and holding them responsible for the escalation leading to the
present situation, and holding them financially liable for the costs of
the reconstruction ensuing from the massive damages caused by the
military operations and for the compensation of all those who have
suffered as a result.
We thank those countries who have expressed their friendship for Lebanon
and their support of Lebanon’s independence and sovereignty, led by the
United States and other countries of the Free World, and we urge them to
support the demands expressed in this statement.
Signatories of the release
Elias Bejjani/Canadian Lebanese Human Rights Federation (CLHRF)
Walid Hadad/Lebanese Canadian
Coordinating Council (LCCC)
Noel Haddad/Canadian Lebanese Christian Heritage Club (CLCHC)
Khalil Kaekati/Phoenician Club of Mississauga (PCOM)
Colonel Charbel Barakat/World Lebanese Cultural Union (WLCU)-Canadian
Chapter
Charbel Constantine/Canadian Phoenician Community Services Club (CPCSC)
Camille Eid/Lebanese Forces Reforming Movement (LFRM)
Dr. Joseph Hitti/ New England Americans For Lebanon (NEAL)
Atef Harb/World US Maronite Union (WMUSAU)
John Hajjar/National Council for the Cedars’ Revolution (WCRC)
Ghabi Galo/Aramic Democratic Organization (Ardo)
Chebl Zoghbi/Ex Lebanese Forces Veteran Fighter in Diaspora (LFVF)
Roni Doumit/Solidarity organization for Middle Ease Christians (SOMAC)
George Chaya/WCLU Media Chairman for Spanish America
NB:
For any needed further information contact:
For more information, please contact us at one of the following e-mail
addresses:
clhrf@yahoo.com
or Phoenicia@hotmail.com
Related Web sites
www.10452lccc.com,
www.clhrf.com,
www.aramaic-dem.org,
www.neal-us.org,
www.lfvf.org,
www.maroniteunion.org |
