Sheikh Qassem Receives Minister Karame, Hails New Cabinet

Hezbollah Deputy Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem received on Tuesday Youth and Sports Minister in the new government Faisal Karame and former Prime Minister Omar Karame’s political assistant Othman Majzoub.

Sheikh Qassem said that Hezbollah was comfortable with the new cabinet, which represents all the Lebanese society’s constituents. “It is Lebanon’s government per excellence,” his eminence said, as he called those who did not take part in it to supervise its work and peacefully oppose it, if needed.

Sheikh Qassem noted that the cabinet saw light following a number of complications as well as local, regional and international pressures that sought to prevent its formation. His eminence said the government would not surrender to American and Israeli orders and would commit to the power trio, in reference to the army and people and resistance balance.

Hezbollah Deputy Secretary General also thanked Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri for his initiative, which paved the way for the cabinet’s birth. “We have proven that the nation’s interest is above everything else,” his eminence stressed. “Obstruction is the intention to the pro-American-Israeli scheme,” his eminence went on to say.

For his part, Minister Karame thanked Hezbollah for its efforts that contributed in finalizing the cabinet formation. He also stressed that he would remain at the side of the Resistance.