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The head of the Free Patriotic Movement, Deputy Gebran Bassil, said: “The truth is that the road with the United States has always been difficult, but we have to travel it and endure injustice to remain free in our country and protect Lebanon from division. and the insistence that we remain friends of the American people, no matter how wrong our administration is. “
He said, at a press conference held after the imposition of US sanctions against him: “Between the sanctions that affect me and the protection of our internal peace, the choice was not difficult, and this is the least I do in exchange for people. who sacrificed their souls and bodies as martyrs for the good of Lebanon, people who fought, were tortured and imprisoned, and innocent people whose blood was wasted and this latest victim is what I make of the explosion. The lowest price I pay in front of at the prices our ancestors paid to maintain this country, “he added:” He remembers Secretary Pompeo’s visit to Lebanon and when he told me in the Foreign Ministry that Hezbollah is a terrorist party, and my natural response was that Hezbollah It is a Lebanese match and that their classification is theirs and our classification is ours. “
Bassil recalled that, “when the US secretary asked me to leave Hezbollah and confront him, I explained to him that this leads to isolating the Shiites, that is, it leads to internal conflicts, and I asked him: Do we find you in your place in the foreigner when conflict occurs to help us prevent bloodshed? ” His answer was that he did not know and when I asked him: Does it certainly guarantee, his answer was negative ”. He continued: “The sanctions talk started in earnest in the summer of 2018 with the formation of the second Hariri government in which I was minister due to the insistence of Saad Hariri himself. At that time, one of the insiders told me that it is necessary to be chancellor by diplomatic immunity. The site prohibits the imposition of penalties. “
He noted that “when Hariri resigned or was asked to resign, the matter was immediately accompanied by his declaration of his disapproval of being with him in any government, that is, suddenly we went from not accepting to form a government without me to not accepting form a government in which I am and someone came to warn me that they are wanting to strip me of diplomatic immunity, “stating that” I told the President of the Republic that a senior US official called him and asked him to immediately break the relationship with the FPM with Hezbollah, and asked them to quickly inform me of the matter, and the next day they informed me directly of the need to address 4 demands immediately, otherwise they would be imposed on them. I have US sanctions after 4 days. “
He added: “They offered me enough temptations of stardom in Lebanon and America and political profit for me and the movement and” the situation has not gone “, adding:” I know the weak souls and their betrayal of their eyes, and one of them fell while he was away and I will sue him before the jury of the movement for betraying the principles of the party, its rules and its leaders and working to demolish it. “” His being, his credibility, his strength and his institutions are intentional and systematic according with article 28 of second degree penalties and the penalty of expulsion.
Bassil considered that “the sanctions are unjust and I will resist them and bring a lawsuit for the damages that happen to me. The US sanctions and the Magnitsky Act are contrary to the most important principles of international law, which is the principle of national sovereignty and is not it applies legally outside the territories of the United States because it is not ratified by any international treaty or treaty with Lebanon, and it is contrary to the simplest “. Principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights “.
He considered that “the sanctions should be a motive to accelerate the formation of the government. We do not appeal to any ally or friend. We have not betrayed the future, we have not betrayed the forces, and we cannot stab Hezbollah, and we are with the facilitation and streamlining the formation of the government and we have not set conditions and we have not clung to a government portfolio and we leave until our participation. ” Or not, and the form of participation is open, and all we have asked is the adoption of a criterion of authorship to accelerate “.
He stressed that “despite our false accusation of obstruction despite not having so far dealt with our silence to give the greatest possible opportunity and room for positivity with our feeling that the intentions are not as they should be, but our indulgence and Facilitation doesn’t get to the point where we can’t ask or express our opinion. This is political terrorism and self-nullification. ” “And he adds:” If clear and unified standards are not adopted, the government will be late, and the one who delays them is the one who establishes discretionary standards and hides them with contradictory promises with the aim of expanding their participation only, and this is a loss of time in favor of collapse, and this is a waste of time for the French initiative, as it wasted the government of Mustafa Adib. “
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