The Religious Authority, Sayyed Muhammad Hussein Fadlullah delivered a speech in the Annual break fast dinner of Al- Mabarrat Association which was attended by several officials and dignitaries. The Sayyed called for building bridges of Dialogue that can work or reaching consensual agreements in Lebanon.

The Sayyed said:

There is a question that is raising itself: Can we build solutions in Lebanon in view of the regional complications? Everybody is saying that this is difficult or even impossible, but I say: If we cannot reach decisive solutions, why not then agree on solutions that will preserve the stability of the country until the region reaches a certain form of disengagement, instead of engaging in fights that serve regional interests?

Why do not we seek to ensure the country's continuity politically, economically and socially, especially if the alternatives lie between divorce and destruction and continuing to exist with certain contained differences?

The second issue: How do we change the situation in Lebanon from a country that reacts to what happens outside to a country that influences the developments in the region? I am not saying that Lebanon can change things in the region, merely by reaching an internal reconciliation, but I claim that Lebanese internal peace can become a criterion for the regional peace, or a basis that could be built on in other areas.

If there are those who want Lebanon to continue to act as a laboratory, why does not this laboratory present specimens that can send signals of peace and tranquillity in the country as a message of good will to those outside?

The third issue: The problem in Lebanon lies in the sectarian system that has undermined and distorted any development whether in the system itself or in the Lebanese political life, and facilitated to the foreign powers the ability to penetrate the Lebanese internal fabric which had already become weak as a result of this system…

Such penetrations, I believe has not remained in the political domain only, but also in the security level, which poses a great danger as the country's stability and its very existence.

Fourthly: There is this talk about Lebanese independence and about the chance to accomplish it through the coming presidential election. We welcome any effort for a fully independent Lebanon, and not one that is independent from some Arab or Muslim states, while falling under an international tutelage that only cares about protecting Israel, but we would like to ask: How could we realize this independence, while the president that is supposed to sponsor and protect it, is chosen by the international and regional powers.

Lebanon has lost its independence the day the politicians decided to fall into foreign hands, and the day some of them decided to kill its unity, thus killing the entire country in their way.