Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea said on Wednesday that dialogue with the Free Patriotic Movement is serious, adding however that it is not easy. “Thirty years of political rivalry were not over pointless issues,” Geagea noted in a press conference following the postponement of the parliamentary session tasked to elect a new president. The parliament failed once again to elect a new president on Wednesday over lack of quorum despite all the efforts deployed by the rival parties to hold dialogue to end the presidential vacuum. Speaker Nabih Berri postponed, for the 17th time, the session until January 28. The presidential seat has been vacant since President Michel Sleiman's mandate ended on May 25. Geagea stressed that he has no problem to visit Rabieh, adding that he agrees with MP Michel Aoun on the saying that “the Republic comes before the presidency.” He also noted that he wanted to ease down the tensions and to normalize the relations between the Lebanese Forces and the FPM. On Monday, FPM MP Ibrahim Kanaan held a meeting with a Lebanese Forces official to set the stage for talks between Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun and LF chief Samir Geagea, stressing that the dialogue aims to contribute to joint action. On another note, Geagea noted that Lebanon is not able to receive more refugees, hailing the last measures taken by the Lebanese government to organize the entry of the Syrian nationals into the country. Lebanon turned back Syrians trying to cross the border Monday under strict new visa regulations, saying it simply cannot handle any more people displaced by the ongoing civil war. The policy, requiring Syrians to obtain visas that sharply limit the time they can stay in Lebanon, effectively narrows one of the few escape routes left from a conflict that has displaced a third of Syria's pre-war population and shows no sign of ending. LBCI/REUTERS