Al-Manar special report ? Mohamad Kazan ? Translated /
Lebanese President Emile Lahoud warned against a constitutional vacuum in case a national unity government is not formed before next presidential elections, stressing that he will not hand the rule to a government he considers nonexistent.
During an interview with the Algerian television, Lahoud stressed he will continue as president until the last day of his term. The president added that the United States and France boycotted him and called for his resignation because of his supportive position to the Lebanese resistance against Israeli occupation and aggression as well as his refusal to the settlement of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. Lahoud also unveiled he had received several death threats but added that he disregarded them. He welcomed all of Lebanon's friends who want to help the country adding that the solution to the ongoing crisis can only be a Lebanese-Lebanese solution. The President accused the Israeli Mossad of standing behind the bombs which were recently discovered in Beirut and across Lebanon, and called for not slipping into the Israeli-led plot to harm Lebanon and the region.