Christian pro-government leader of the Lebanese Forces (LF) party Samir Geagea strongly lashed out Hezbollah and the opposition Sunday, accusing them of blocking the country's development, LBC TV reported.
Referring to Hezbollah, Geagea said "as long as you maintain your arms, the state institutions will never function."
The Hezbollah-led opposition coalition and the Western-backed parliamentary majority remain at odds over the fate of Hezbollah's arsenal, as pro-government Leaders have been seeking to pressure Hezbollah into giving up its arms, while Hezbollah insist on keeping its arms to resist Israel.
Geagea speech was delivered to thousands of LF partisans and supporters during a memorial mass in remembrance of the Lebanese Forces martyrs who died during the Lebanese civil war.
Meanwhile, Geagea, a Christian warlord during the 1975-1990 civil wars in Lebanon, apologized to Lebanese people for "non-justified wounds" his party inflicted during the civil war.
"We made mistakes in the past, some were horrible and harmful, and if we could have avoided them we would not have committed them," Geagea added.
Lebanese Christians fought the worst wars with the Lebanese Muslims and the Palestinians for 15 years.
Geagea was sent to eleven years of jail 1994-2005 for crimes he was accused of committing, one of the convicted crimes was the assassination of former Sunni Prime Minister Omar Karami in 1986.
Source:Xinhua
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