The party of the
Guardians of the Cedars-National Lebanese Movement issued the following communiqué on
10/1/2000
The questions under
consideration at present are old/new questions and the Party feels the need to recall them
briefly:
The Election Law: It seems that the uproar of both the
so-called Opposition and the so-called Loyalists to the proposed law are relative to
purely personal considerations. The Party, however, believes that a small or a large
electoral ward is as bad one as the other as long as the elections are held under Syrian
occupation. Consequently, before requiring a fair election law, we must require full
Independence and National Sovereignty before anything else. The party firmly believes that
there can be neither genuine Loyalists nor genuine Opposition but only puppets upon whom
the Syrians confer particular roles designed to keep Lebanon in a state of weakness and
anarchy and complete dependence on Syrian troops.
The question of the
implantation of Palestinian refugees: The positive position regarding this question is the refusal of
the implantation on the political and official levels. But the negative position is
linking the refusal of the implantation with the right of the Palestinian refugees to
return to their land . The Party believes that the refusal of implantation should be
linked only with the need of the departure of the Palestinian from Lebanon. Their right to
return to their land is not a
Lebanese concern.
The negotiations: The Lebanese government insists on the
unity of the Lebanese and Syrian tracks and on the support of the terrorism they call
Resistance, insisting that this is an immutable Lebanese position. The Party, on the
contrary, insists that the true immutable Lebanese position should concern the
Sovereignty, Independence and freedom of decision. The unity of the Lebanese and Syrian
tracks is not a political constant but a slogan to hide the relinquishment of the
Sovereignty, Independence and freedom of decision.
At the Service of Lebanon,
the Chief,
Etienne Sacre.