The donation
conference for the rebuilding of Lebanon
Your Excellencies and
honourable Ministers
The Lebanese Diaspora
supports the Swedish initiative to hold this conference for
Lebanon on its soil. Meanwhile, we urge the donators to be
acting under the frames of the United Nations and its
resolutions, especially UNSCR 1559 and 1701.
Our clear claim is that
the donations aimed for Lebanon in this occasion should be
coherent with the aims of UNSCR 1701 which confirm the
fulfilment of 1559 regarding the disarmament of the Hezbollah
inside Lebanon.
We are calling upon all
participants to avoid the mistake of donating money that can
build a country and in the same time can be used to destroy it
in the few years to come. With every project approved on the
ground we need to see a part of the military equipment of
Hezbollah handed over to the Lebanese Army or directly to the UN
forces. UN peace-keeping forces are unable to keep a peace if
not agreed upon among the belligerent parts. The disarmament of
the militia of Hezbollah should be the main condition for
starting any aid program. Only this way we can be able to see
the seriousness of the Hezbollah leadership if they really are
respecting the International Community. We have not seen any
signs from the Hezbollah militia leadership aiming to end the
war. In the contrary, they have until now only claimed
“strategic divine victory” and tried to harass and threaten any
Lebanese voice that claims and urges the fully implementation of
the UNSCR 1559 and 1701, Hezbollah are considering these voices
as the voices of the “enemies of Lebanon”.
With all our
appreciation to you efforts, we urge your conference to take the
measures which make it possible to re-establish peace in Lebanon
and in the region through the disarmament of Hezbollah and other
militias that are using the Lebanese civilians as hostages for
their ideological agendas and human shields in their
fundamentalist wars.
May you success in this
conference.
Sincerely
The World Council for
the Cedars Revolution:
Roni Harb
ronidoumit@hotmail.com -
www.cedarsrevolution.org
The Lebanese
International committee for implementing the UNSCR 1559:
Elias Saouk
elias_saouk@hotmail.com -
www.un1559.org
ArDO: Aramaic Democratic
Organization:
Gabi Gello
aramaic@aramaic-dem.org
-
www.aramaic-dem.org
SOMEC: Solidarity
organization for Middle Eastern Christians:
Asaad Sauma
aram.stockholm@chello.se
-
www.somec.info
The World Maronite Union
in Sweden:
Toni Abi Khalil
post@stremi.nu -
www.maroniteunion.org
The Swedish peace
association:
Roni Doumit
sweleb@naharnet.com -
www.uppsala.svenska-freds.se