Marking Lebanon\u2019s 78th Independence Day commemoration and the registration deadline for Lebanese expatriates to participate in the upcoming parliamentary elections, House Speaker Nabih Berri called for \u201csummoning independence as a history that began as a station for assuming national responsibility that ensured independence and liberation from colonialism, and continued, in many independent stations, to confront and resist the Israeli aggression and occupation, and to consolidate the unity and Arabness of Lebanon as a final homeland for all its sons.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cWe are all concerned at this moment, which is the most existentially dangerous for Lebanon and the Lebanese, to fortify Lebanon and its independence by immunizing the judiciary and achieving its independence as an authority that adheres to the rules of the constitution and the law, away from politicization, maliciousness, sectarianism and confessionalism,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
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\u2018We are concerned with liberating the economy from its dependence and surrender to the power of monopolies and monopolists; with liberating citizens\u2019 livelihood and medicine from black market dealers; with liberating people\u2019s deposits and lifetime savings from banks by legislation and approving laws that preserve their rights; with restoring trust between the citizen and the state and its institutions, and the world\u2019s confidence in Lebanon\u2019s position, role, message and human being; a Lebanon that is committed to fulfilling its constitutional entitlements on time,\u201d Berri asserted.<\/p>\n
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\u201cOn Independence Day, to the resident Lebanese who continue to hold on to the embers of belonging to the nation, the land, and the constants, and to the expatriate Lebanese who rendered the area of \u200b\u200btheir homeland the size of the universe, who have always been and still are Lebanon\u2019s ever shining sun and stars that do not know decline\u2026To them, at this moment in which they confirmed the depth of their belonging to Lebanon and their partnership right in everything that ensures the livelihood of the state and society by registering to partake in the parliamentary elections, we pay tribute and respect,\u201d the Speaker went on.<\/p>\n
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\u201cYou will participate in the elections liberated from the sectarianism that has plagued us internally,\u201d Berri emphasized, addressing the Lebanese expatriates, adding, \u201cThe bet is on you as being the nucleus of the civil state to which the Lebanese aspire, and in which Lebanon\u2019s salvation lies.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cA salute to the Lebanese army, its leadership, officers, soldiers and individuals, the security forces and the resistance fighters, all the resistance fighters and the martyrs, all the martyrs, who made independence and sovereignty and preserved the rights, wealth and borders,\u201d Berri concluded.<\/p>\n
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Source: National News Agency<\/p>\n
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Marking Lebanon\u2019s 78th Independence Day commemoration and the registration deadline for Lebanese expatriates to participate in the upcoming parliamentary elections, House Speaker Nabih Berri called for \u201csummoning independence as a history that began as a station for assuming national responsibility that ensured independence and liberation from colonialism, and continued, in many independent stations, to confront … <\/p>\n