Lebanon’s House Speaker Nabih Berri addressed on Saturday at the parliament an academic delegation from the Lebanese American University (dean and students), initiating the development of the electoral system and working to reduce the voting age, immediately after holding the [parliamentary] elections.
Speaker Berri called on students “to begin a constitutional uprising,” urging students to differentiate between State terrorism and Lebanon’s right to resistance.
“Lebanon’s free economy and its banking system constituted an economic competitor to ‘Israel’, in addition to the fact that the resistance was a role model for the people’s confrontation of aggression,” Berri added.
The House Speaker shed light on the role of students in countering terrorism by saying, “Terrorism can only be curbed through coexistence between sects, and through Lebanese unity.”
Commenting on the Syrian refugees’ issue, Berri said that “Syrians are in need of services, infrastructure and water networks.”
At the educational level, however, Berri told the students that he raised to the European Parliament the problem of having more Syrian students than Lebanese at schools.
The Speaker concluded by considering that “the language of political discourse to solve this dilemma must be unified.”
Source: NNA
