Geagea: Nasrallah's call for loyalist and opposition to cooperate attempt to evade responsibility

Lebanese Forces party leader Samir Geagea confirmed on Tuesday during a meeting with the press in Meerab that Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah's call for loyalists and oppositionists to cooperate in a bid to save the country was "an attempt to start evading responsibility."

"The ones that can help now more than ever to remedy the situation, halt deterioration, and bring back a healthy economy to the country are Hezbollah and Sayyed Nasrallah," Geagea maintained.

"If Nasrallah seriously wants to help at the strategic level, the issue requires of him three main steps; the first step is to expose any of its corrupt allies; the second it is to distance Hezbollah from regional developments -- given that the party's interference in Yemen, Iraq, and Syria has had a negative impact on Lebanon at the economic and financial levels; the third and most basic step is to help the Lebanese state recover an acceptable limit of its credibility in order to be able to rise again," Geagea explained, asking of Hezbollah to leave strategic and military decisions up to the state.