Former Prime Minister, Saad Hariri, said on Friday he was ready to participate in a coalition government alongside Hezbollah "considering that it is a political party.""I am very upbeat on the formation of this government," Hariri, whose father's assassination in 2005 had sharpened rift among Lebanon's factions, told Reuters today."I did not make concessions regarding my participation in a government next to Hezbollah and its allies," the Beirut lawmaker, who's been living abroad for more than two years, for safety reasons, added."We are trying to run the country with everybody and we do not want anyone to stay out because Lebanon is now in critical times," he said.