Hizbullah senior Naim Qassem said the resistance and reforms are unseparated twins in Lebanon and his party would exert utmost efforts to achieve reforms much as it did on the resistance level.

Qassem's word came Thursday in the context of a graduation ceremony for "Afaq" Institute students at the Unesco Palace in Beirut.

Qassem said the warnings of sanctions to be imposed on Lebanon due to non-financing the Special Tribunal for Lebanon - probing the assassination Martyr Rafic Hariri in 2005 - were fruitless for those posing these warnings.

After all, Qassem explained, Lebanon would not yield to international resolutions at the expense of its sovereignty and dignity. 

In a related context, Hezbollah's top official Ammar Moussawi on Thursday received a delegation of the French Socialist Party, with whom he exchanged viewpoints regarding the current situation in Lebanon and the broader Arab region.

Moussawi said there was an agreement over the necessity to find peaceful solutions based on dialogue to the Syrian crisis, denouncing as well foreign interference "as it only complicates matters."

"The West always acts as per double standards," he added, calling the Europeans to have a policy independent from the US towards Mideast affairs.