Hezbollah: Maritime Talks With Zionist Regime Not Related to Normalization
BEIRUT (Dispatches) – Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement’s parliamentary bloc says that Lebanon’s upcoming talks with the Zionist regime on land and maritime disputes have nothing to do with normalization of their ties.
The framework announced by Lebanese House Speaker Nabih Berri earlier this month for negotiating the dispute with the Zionist regime "aimed at protecting our national sovereignty, but it has no connection whatsoever with the context of reconciliation with the Zionist enemy that usurped Palestinian lands,” the bloc, Loyalty to the Resistance, said in a statement in its first reaction to the talks.
It said it has nothing to do with the normalization policies recently adopted by some Arab regimes "which have never believed in the option of resistance or practiced it against the enemy of the Arab nation.”
On Oct. 2, Berri announced a framework agreement for Lebanon’s talks with the occupying regime through the United Nations.
UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric has recently said Lebanon’s maritime talks, to be held at the headquarters of the UN peacekeeping force UNIFIL in the southern town of Naqoura, will start around mid-October.
The issue of the sea frontier is especially sensitive as Lebanon hopes to continue exploring for oil and gas in a part of the Mediterranean.
In February 2018, Lebanon signed its first contract for offshore drilling for oil and gas in two blocks in the Mediterranean with a consortium comprising energy giants Total, ENI and Novatek.
Hezbollah Deputy Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem on Monday strongly condemned normalization with the Zionist regime as a betrayal of the Palestinian cause, emphasizing that Arab rulers scrambling to establish diplomatic ties with the Tel Aviv regime have reaped nothing but humiliation and disgrace.
The framework announced by Lebanese House Speaker Nabih Berri earlier this month for negotiating the dispute with the Zionist regime "aimed at protecting our national sovereignty, but it has no connection whatsoever with the context of reconciliation with the Zionist enemy that usurped Palestinian lands,” the bloc, Loyalty to the Resistance, said in a statement in its first reaction to the talks.
It said it has nothing to do with the normalization policies recently adopted by some Arab regimes "which have never believed in the option of resistance or practiced it against the enemy of the Arab nation.”
On Oct. 2, Berri announced a framework agreement for Lebanon’s talks with the occupying regime through the United Nations.
UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric has recently said Lebanon’s maritime talks, to be held at the headquarters of the UN peacekeeping force UNIFIL in the southern town of Naqoura, will start around mid-October.
The issue of the sea frontier is especially sensitive as Lebanon hopes to continue exploring for oil and gas in a part of the Mediterranean.
In February 2018, Lebanon signed its first contract for offshore drilling for oil and gas in two blocks in the Mediterranean with a consortium comprising energy giants Total, ENI and Novatek.
Hezbollah Deputy Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem on Monday strongly condemned normalization with the Zionist regime as a betrayal of the Palestinian cause, emphasizing that Arab rulers scrambling to establish diplomatic ties with the Tel Aviv regime have reaped nothing but humiliation and disgrace.