BEIRUT: Lebanon’s dissociation policy towards the Syria crisis was no longer applicable, Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblatt said Friday.

“Let’s be realistic. As Lebanese, there are [certain] issues that we can resolve and others that we cannot,” Jumblatt told local daily An-Nahar.

“If some people come out to say we should implement the BaabdaDeclaration, this is something that is impossible today,” he argued.

The Baabda Declaration, agreed by rival March 8 and March 14 leaders during a National Dialogue session at Baabda Palace in June 2012, calls for distancing Lebanon from regional and international conflicts, particularly the civil war in Syria.

The March 14 coalition has repeatedly accused Hezbollah of violating the Baabda Declaration by sending its members to fight alongside the Syrian army against rebels.

Hezbollah has responded by saying it was a “latecomer” to the Syrian war and the last party to have intervened in the conflict next door, accusing March 14 of sending gunmen to Syria to support the opposition.

March 14 has denied Hezbollah’s allegations, saying its support for Syrian rebels was political and humanitarian.