BEIRUT: President Michel Sleiman called on Hezbollah Monday to avoid intervening in Syria, saying the resources of the resistance belonged to all the Lebanese. “The national capabilities, which are the Army, the state and the resistance, do not belong to a faction or sect,” he added. “They belong to the nation and cannot be biased, and the nation must decide how to use these capabilities.”

Sleiman said the resources of the resistance should be placed under the control of the Lebanese state.

“The resistance cannot have a monopoly on intervention in internal and external affairs,” he said.

Hezbollah fought alongside Syrian troops in the border town of Qusair earlier this year, helping dislodge rebels from the vital supply hub, in contravention of the Baabda Declaration. [Link]