Chinese Delegation Visits Hizbullah Museum in Lebanon

Following are excerpts from an Al-Manar TV report on a Chinese delegation visiting the Hizbullah museum. The report aired on March 19, 2013.

Reporter: The resistance, having become an integral part of Lebanese culture, has emerged as a central theme in the academic activity of the Lebanese University, and as a means to propagate itself throughout the world. Deans and rectors of various faculties have become soldiers in our number one national cause, within the international framework of the "Lebanese-Chinese Friendship Committee," whose Lebanese and Chinese members visited one of the former bastions of Hizbullah in Lebanon.

This is the Mleeta Museum for Jihadi tourism in Tuffah, South Lebanon. A Chinese delegation, led by a former deputy foreign minister of China, and including many Beijing University academics and professors, visited the site. They were accompanied by Lebanese University deans and rectors. They were received by members of Hizbullah's leadership in South Lebanon, and its information department.

Geoge Kallas, Dean of Sciences [sic], Lebanese University: We saw that the Chinese delegation admires all the Resistance has achieved. We are proud to say that we are very pleased with Hizbullah's achievements. This is why I suggested that we salute them.

Wafa Berry, Dean of the Faculty of Social Science [sic], Lebanese University: This is the other side of what our young men and women should be learning. This has to do with our honor. Therefore, it was only natural for the cultural exchange between China and Lebanon to include this place.

Reporter: Members of the joint Lebanese-Chinese delegation toured the various monuments. They started with this representation of the Israeli defeat, toured the different advanced posts and tunnels of Hizbullah, and eventually reached the museum of captured military equipment.

Yang Fuchang, former Chinese deputy foreign minister: We were very happy to visit this resistance exhibition. Indeed, the resistance of the Lebanese people has been valiant. We must make sacrifices, but eventually, the will of the Lebanese and Chinese peoples will render the resistance victorious.

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