Lebanon Press
Headlines
Annahar
- Ambiguity, caution hover over Lebanon pending Saudi-Iranian
summit details.
- Tribunal at 'emergency room' after Nijad-Abdullah meet.
- Berri optimistic, Siniora waiting.
- Pending meeting with Mubarak at Sharm El Sheikh today,
Gemayel says temporary solutions equivalent to danger of keeping things where they
are.
- Draft law at Congress to limit cluster bomb sales and
transport.
- Hoss: Abdullah-Ahmadinijad meet will contribute to defusing
confessional strife.
- Rizk optimistic over approving tribunal.
- Fadlallah: Opposition, loyalists action won't lead to civil war
- Geagea: Two-point solution under discussion: Forming a small
committee to introduce necessary amendments to tribunal, and forming a national unity
government on a 19-10-1 basis.
- Hezbollah: Jumblat begging America to drag Lebanon into civil war.
- Yakan: Opposition not against tribunal, won't reach civil
disobedience.
- Wahhab: Lebanon solution will take weeks, may be months.
Assafir
- Riyadh summit succeeds on the Lebanese level. Courageous
decisions within days. Atmosphere 'very positive'. Nijad calls Assad, Abdullah.
- Arab League FMs agree to tribunal in framework of Lebanese
consensus.
- Pedersen's missions make Lebanon look like being under
mandate. By George Alam.
- Murr to meet Bush, Rice and Gates. Americans have ample time
for many Lebanese.
- Siniora to 'Time': Americans told me they are prepared to
solve Shebaa Farms issue.
- Rizk: Lebanon cannot be isolated from its neighbors,
starting with Syria.
- Meetings in Sidon and the camps to confront bombs' wave.
- Fadlallah: U.S. attempts to instigate Sunni-Shiite strife
will fail.
- Hoss: Saudi initiative to gather Lebanese around a dialogue
table is needed.
- Abulainein denies al-Qaeda presence in Tyre camps.
- Hezbollah-Islamic Group delegation visits Hoss. Qomati:
Positive developments on the lead.
Al-Mustaqbal
- Lebanon awaits translation of Saudi-Iranian summit 'positive
atmosphere' .
- Nijad changes positions over Arab Peace Initiative.
- Moussa hopes for solution before Arab Summit.
- Arab League Council backs tribunal, Lebanon sovereignty.
- Stances denounce arming by Syrian National Social Party.
- Geagea calls on Berri to ask allies to deliver weapons to
army.
- Impossible for majority to hand authority in exchange for
tribunal. By Nassir Al Asaaad.
- Rizk: We are open to discuss amendments to tribunal without
tampering with its essence.
- Homayed warns against tampering with the army and its
ideology
Ad-Diyar
- Cairo meet gathers Riyadh and Damascus after Nijad-Abdullah
agreement.
- Priority now for electing new president. Majority playing
card of nominating Joseph Torbei for president to control Baabda.
- Hoss hopeful about Saudi-Iranian summit, confident solution
will be strictly Lebanese.
- Magistrate Salim Azar says Rifaii's constitutional
explanations are biased.
- Syrian National Socialist Party says won't resort to arms.
Al-Balad
- Robert Ghanem: Speaker have no right to tamper with
institutions.
- Iranian envoy to Beirut shortly.
- Saudi-Iranian summit prolongs truce.
- Lebanese-Syrian consensus over tribunal expected in Riyadh
summit.
- Arab Council meet against amending Arab Peace Initiative.
- Saudi-Iranian consultations to continue until Baghdad and
Riaydh 'summits.'
- GemayeI: I fear solutions are just pain-killers
- Anwar Khalil: Zero count for resolving Lebanon crisis
started. Syria basically related to solution.
- Yakan: We won't reach civil disobedience.
- Faisal: Palestinians not party to Lebanese push and pull.
- Palestinians concerned with US drive to settle them in
Lebanon, hold to the right of return.
Al-Akhbar
- Saudi King calls for Lebanese dialogue in Riyadh.
- Damascus: Tribunal of no concern to us, aims at Hezbollah's
head. By Nicholas Nassif
- Gemayel leaves to Cairo, says we are before and important
chance to resolve crisis.
- Karami: Nijad-Abdullah meet a glimpse of hope.
- The settlement Washington intervened to foil in
Nijad-Abdullah summit. By Tariq Tarshihsi.
- Saudi-Iranian summit opens channels to change tracks. By
Arafat Hijazi.
- Yakan: Opposition won't enter domestic conflicts or allow
civil war.
- Fadlallah: War in Lebanon would adversely effect UNIFIL.
- Car spare parts found on Hariri crime scene.
Al-Hayat
- Arab Foreign Ministers welcome Mecca
agreement, call on Lebanese to agree to tribunal.
- King Abdullah receives phone call from
Ahmadinijad.
Al-Siyassa
- Tehran trains spies' networks to ignite civil wars in the
Gulf.
Tehran denies Ahmadinijad's approval of the Arab Peace Initiative, praises king Abdullah's
'wisdom'.
- Saudi-Iranian agreement to 'tackle' sectarian strife in the
regions
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