Bassil meets Berri, calls for preventing civil strife

Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil met Tuesday in Ain el-Tineh with Speaker Nabih Berri.

"I met today with the Speaker to follow up together on the proposal to protect Lebanon, because today we are not only facing an Israeli war, the systematic destruction of the South, and the systematic displacement of our people there. This presents us with a major challenge: we are not just facing a passing war, but a deliberate change that we must confront with internal solidarity."

He added: "But what is more dangerous is that we are experiencing internal instability every day, and this should make us all more vigilant and protective of our internal unity."

Bassil pointed out that "we all realize that an external war is easier than an internal one," adding: "We are all concerned with solidarity to prevent it, and that is why we consulted on the idea of ​​protecting Lebanon and our internal unity, strengthening our internal front, and how we can implement it."

"We concluded that broader national consultation is the best way to solidify these ideas and reach a comprehensive national consensus on them," Bassil went on to say.