The Movement’s first official comment on the “Basilio sanctions”

The political body of the Free Patriotic Movement issued a statement in which it expressed its “total rejection of the US sanctions against the leader of the Free Patriotic Movement, Representative Gebran Bassil, and considers them a clear slander and a use of a US law to retaliate. against a political leader for his refusal to comply with what contradicts his principles, convictions and national options. ” The commission unanimously affirmed its full solidarity with the movement’s president, including who he represents and who he represents.

And I regret “that the US administration, on the threshold of the end of the presidential term, has used the prestige, influence and power of its country to break Lebanese free will, in contradiction with the values ​​of freedom and democracy that for a long time they have united the Americans with the Lebanese, and specifically in the incubation environment from which the Free Patriotic Movement emerged. “

The political body asked the US administration to “come back from its unjust decision, and urges it to show any evidence, document or information in its possession that justifies its decision. It is, of course, with its capabilities and control of the global banking system, able to show what it has of documents, if available. ” Instead of being satisfied with the establishments and the intelligence apparatus they have and those who use them, the generalities and the consumer talk, we used to hear it from some of their trumpets in Lebanon. “

In his statement, he indicated, “Our friendship with the American people and the ties that unite us culturally, intellectually and values ​​make it imperative that their officials respect the sovereignty of the Lebanese over their land and support them in the state-building project, in that the Free Patriotic Movement and its president occupy the leadership position in it, which leads to enshrine the strong and stable option of Lebanon. Which constitutes an element of peace and stability in the Middle East. “

The commission concluded its statement by underlining that “the Free Patriotic Movement will continue to adhere to its principles, free in its decisions, a master in his land, who does not receive instructions from anyone, internally or externally, chooses national unity to please the exterior and supports to any Lebanese in the face of any assault against him. ” He sacrifices everything he has for the sake of Lebanon’s freedom, sovereignty, and independence, and for the sake of building the state in it, and the unjust sanctions that were applied against its president are a new sacrifice that the movement makes for only in the interest of Lebanon, its security and stability. “

On Friday, the US administration announced its intention to “impose sanctions on Bassil for his alliance with the” Shiite “Hezbollah, as he claimed, in addition to accusing him of undermining the construction of an effective government, in addition to corruption charges and accepting bribes.”