Hezbollah delegation visits Grand Mufti Sheikh Qabbani

Grand Mufti Sheikh Mohammad Rashid Qabbani met on Thursday with a delegation of Hezbollah headed by Ibrahim Amin Sayyed, tackling the latest developments in Lebanon and in the region.

Following the meeting, Sayyed stressed the necessity that all parties in Lebanon protect the country against neighboring crisis.

He also said that the European Union's latest decision to blacklist the military wing of Hezbollah as a terrorist group "is not linked to the delay in forming the new government."

He assured that Hezbollah is not obstructing the formation, but that others were putting "impossible conditions and terms."

The European Union placed the military wing of the Lebanese party Hezbollah on its terror list on Monday [22 July] in a major policy change toward the Middle East.

The EU's 28 foreign ministers reached the decision unanimously at their monthly meeting, swiftly swaying the last nations that had any doubts. It came after prolonged diplomatic pressure from the United States and Israel, who both consider Hezbollah a terrorist organization.