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| 13/05/2008 Hezbollah welcomed the Arab League decision to dispatch ministers to Beirut in a bid to end the fighting, but insisted that the delegation must be neutral.
"We ask the Arabs not to favor one party over another," Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah's political aide Hussein Khalil told a news conference late Monday.
Khalil accused Prime Minister Fouad Saniora's government of usurping the authority.
He also accused the government and its militias of attacking peaceful demonstrators and charged that pro-government "militiamen" took up sniper positions on rooftops across Beirut the night clashes broke out Thursday. Khalil stressed that the opposition will keep up its civic disobedience until the Saniora unconstitutional government revokes its decisions, which sparked the violence, and goes to dialogue.
"Our problem is with the government and not with our fellow citizens," Khalil concluded.
BERRI: JUMBLATT WITH REVOKING DECISIONS
The head of the Progressive Socialist Party MP Walid Jumblatt told Speaker Nabih Berri that he supports revoking the two decisions adopted by the unconstitutional government of Fouad Saniora on Hezbollah's communications network and the removal of airport security chief Wafiq Shqeir, the Lebanese al-Akhbar daily reported. It added that Jumblatt told Berri that MP Saad Hariri's position is close to his.
GEAGEA: SANIORA'S GOV'T WILL NOT REVOKE DECISIONS
Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea said Saniora's government would not resign and the opposition would not achieve any gains by force. Geagea said the his bloc would not discuss the issue of the two controversial government decisions unless the situation returned to normalcy. Geagea also said that the Arab Committee would arrive in Lebanon "only through Beirut airport." Geagea was speaking after talks with Saniora at the latter's office in Beirut.
BERRI: CABINET TO REVOKE DECISIONS SOON
According to al-Akhbar, Berri expects that Saniora's ministerial team convenes in next few hours to revoke the decisions taken on the fifth of May. He added that the real position of the "March 14" bloc is very different from its declared one that rejects revoking the decisions.
S.A. EMBASSY CLOSURE MEANS ARAB INITIATIVE GONE WITH THE WIND
On the closure of the Saudi embassy in Beirut after Ambassador Abdul Aziz Khojah and his family left Lebanon, Berri said that this means that the Arab initiative is gone with the wind.
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