Hezbollah issued a statement on Monday that its secretary general, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, informed Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblatt that Syria is over its period of rivalry. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is ready to meet the PSP leader, the statement added. 

However, Hezbollah did not specify the date of Jumblatt’s expected trip.

According to the statement, Nasrallah has been playing a mediating role between Jumblatt and Assad at the former’s request.

Damascus decided to accept Jumblatt’s visits following his latest statements on Syria, the Resistance and Palestine, the statement said, referring to Jumblatt’s interview on Al-Jazeera television.

The PSP leader told Al-Jazeera on Saturday that he had previously made some inappropriate comments about Assad “in a moment of anger and loss.” In 2007, Jumblatt called Assad "the dictator of Damascus... a savage... an Israeli product, a liar... and a criminal.”

-NOW Lebanon

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