Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea stressed on Monday that the Saudi leadership will not spare an effort to help Lebanon and the Lebanese despite the baseless accusations and slander that have been directed towards the Kingdom by some misguided Lebanese sides.
During a consultative business meeting in Maarab attended by Saudi Ambassador to Lebanon Walid al-Bukhari and several LF MPs, Geagea said he was hoping that the “spirit of fraternity would prevail with Saudi Arabia standing by Lebanon and its people.”
He stressed his support for the best of relations between Lebanon and the Saudi leadership and people.
Moreover, he remarked that Lebanon had entered a “dark era in recent years after some sides sought to drag it away from its Arab fold and natural surroundings.”
“Saudi Arabia consequently, took a noticeable step back, not to turn its back on the Lebanese people, as some sides are led to believe, but in order to garner support and prepare to stand by Lebanon again as it has always done,” he explained.
It is no secret to the Saudi leadership that Lebanon has been “cursed” in the past 15 years with groups from within it that are following agendas that completely go against the country’s interest and do not take its national interest into account, including good foreign relations, he went on to say.
Geagea said he was committed “to the death” to Lebanon’s independence, rejecting any form of occupation or hegemony of any foreign power.
Moreover, he reiterated recent statements by Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rai in which he said that Saudi Arabia had never violated Lebanon’s sovereignty or independence and never dragged it into wars, obstructed its democracy or disregarded its state.
Lebanon will not allow sides with “evil intentions to succeed in separating it from its Arab fold,” he vowed.
