Lebanese President Michel Sleiman addressed the Lebanese community in Uruguay Saturday, urging them to hold on to their origins and actively participate in elections, while assuring them that Lebanon is no longer a center for guarding other regimes or states or a platform for launching messages to anyone, the (NNA) News Agency reported today. “Lebanon has been a democratic country for over seventy years, but was not able to practice this democracy efficiently due to lack of power rotation in neighboring countries which lacked democracy,” this according to Sleiman led certain domestic political factions to form alliances with neighboring countries which transformed Lebanon into a battlefield for neighboring Arab regimes. “This has ceased to be, Lebanon is no longer such a turf, and Lebanese politics have become solely local and not linked to anything else.” he added. Sleiman relayed victories of the Lebanese army in defending country against Israeli aggressions and domestic terrorism and revealed a five-year plan to arm the military, so that it would be the sole armed authority and only defender of Lebanon against any type of threat.