The Hezbollah Parliamentary Bloc said that negotiations to demarcate the sea and land borders in the south of the country, which are expected to start soon, do not fall within the context of reconciliation with the Israeli occupation.
The Hezbollah parliamentary bloc added that the negotiating framework on borders is not related to the normalization policies pursued by Arab countries that have never believed in the option of resistance, as far as he described.
The bloc (13 deputies out of a total of 128 deputies) stated that determining the coordinates of national sovereignty is the sole responsibility of the concerned Lebanese state to announce that this land and these waters are Lebanese land and waters, contrary to all the talk that was said here and there.
"The negotiating framework on an exclusive issue related to our southern maritime borders and the restoration of our land, leading to the demarcation of our national sovereignty sites, has absolutely nothing to do with the context of reconciliation with the Zionist enemy usurping Palestine, nor the normalization policies that it pursued," said Hassan Ezz El-Din, a deputy in the Lebanese Parliamentary Bloc of Hezbollah. Recently, it may be adopted by Arab countries that did not believe in the option of resistance. "
This is the first comment from Hezbollah since the Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri announced on October 2 that negotiations would start with Israel regarding the border demarcation under the auspices of the United Nations in the middle of the same month.
Stefan Dujarric, a spokesman for the Secretary-General of the United Nations, announced Tuesday that negotiations will begin around mid-month at the United Nations headquarters in Naqoura, southern Lebanon, with the United States acting as a "mediator and facilitator for discussions of maritime border demarcation."
Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, Hezbollah’s most prominent ally and who announced the agreement had been reached a week ago, said the meetings would be held "in an ongoing manner at the United Nations headquarters ... under the auspices of the UN Special Coordinator's team" in Lebanon.
The announcement sparked criticism, especially from Hezbollah's opponents, who saw in Berri’s announcement that an agreement had been reached with the tacit approval of the party, which is Israel's archenemy and had previously announced its opposition to any role for America in the negotiations due to its close association with Tel Aviv.