| Annahar |
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Summit
surprise: Draft solution studied by Abdullah, Assad and Siniora |
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Highly informed source revealed to
Annahar this morning that the outcome of the meeting King Abduallah had with President
Assad, and then with PM Siniora, will appear in the Summit today. Without elaborating,
Annahar said in a frontpage headline that a draft solution for Lebanon's crisis was
studied by Abdullah, Assad and Siniora. |
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Lebanon's two separate delegations
highlights Lebanon's crisis, divisions; believed would downgrade the rank of the Lebanese
issue on the Summit's list of priorities to evade Arab division on the matter. |
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Indicative of this inclination was
the fact that Lebanon's two delegations were received at the airport by the deputy Prince
of Riyadh Sultan bin Abdul Aziz instead of King Abdullah, who personally welcomed all the
other heads of delegations. |
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Quoting a high ranking Lebanese
official, AFP said "Lebanon is no more at the frontline during the summit because the
Lebanese file lost its glitter when the Lebanese failed to reach consensus". |
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Acting FM Tariq Mitri said Arab
League chief Amr Mouusa has received President Lahoud's remarks on Lebanon's paper to the
Summit, "which surprised every one". He said negotiotions underway likely
introduce a minor change in "a line or two". |
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Reports say the Summit will issue
a draft resolution on Lebanon calling for dialogue among the Lebanese. The said resolution
is expected to "support Lebanon's sovereign right to practice its sovereign options
within the established practices and constitutional institutions." The resolution
will also support "the creation of a tribunal of international nature for the murder
of Lebanon's former prime minister Rafic Hariri and the subsequent crimes in the framework
of Lebanese consensus over this tribunal". In addition, the resolution will support
"Lebanon's seven-point plan which was presented by the Lebanese government"
during the Israel war on Lebanon last Summer. |
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Summit
expected to relaunch Arab peace initiative |
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Arab leaders are expected to
relaunch their 2002 Beirut initiative, which offers Israel normal ties with all Arab
states in return for full withdrawal from land it occupied in the 1967 Middle East war.
Israel rejected the plan in 2002, but along with the United States has recently shown more
interest. |
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President Assad on Tuesday flew in
for the Arab summit to a traditional embrace from Saudi King Abdullah in their first
contact since relations chilled after last year’s Lebanon war. |
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In addition to reviving the Arab
peace initiative, the Summit is expected to adopt a resolution on Iraq encouraging a
constitutional amendment to "improve the country's political process." The
Summit is also expected to issue another resolution on nuclear energy in the Middle East,
and one on Lebanon supporting the Lebanese government, and calling on the Lebanese to
resume dialogue for solving their political crisis. |
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Security Council extends Hariri murder probe for one year |
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Paris: Chapter 7 not our option, reverting to it likely |
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Saudi steps to bridge gap between Lebanon's two delegations - By Khalil Fleihan |
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Diplomatic Source in Riyadh
revealed that the Summit will form an Arab ministerial committee comprising the foreign
ministers of Saudi Arabia, Egypt and may be Emirates, in addition to Arab League SG Amr
Moussa, to support the Arab initiative led by Moussa, and visit Beirut for this purpose,
while continuing its contacts with the opposition and the ruling team. |
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Lahoud
meets Assad, Abbas, Bashir, says crisis a "passing cloud" |
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Siniroa
meets Mubarak, Abbas, Sabbah, Moussa, says Lahoud's remarks came late |
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Electoral
law reverting between Berri and Sfeir |
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Tueini conveys Berri message to
Sfeir, to relay reply shortly. |
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Fearing
for Lebanon's formula, entity, Berri expediting electoral law - By Radawan Akil |
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Where
did Hezbollah and the opposition win and lose in their sit-in - By Ibrahim Beiram |
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Hamadeh
expects Moussa back, says "surprise" in Summit likely |
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March
14 pursues pressure to convene parliament - By Rita Chrara |
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Majorit MPs affirm that tribunal
draft will reach the parliament tomorrow, says a resolution similar to 1701 would
otherwise come forth. |
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Jumblat: Our struggle with
Hezbollah's 'state' is structural, in Taef's interest. |
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Mekari: Berri doesn't decide for
the Parliament on whether this gov't is legitimate or not. |
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Ali Ammar: MP's move a form for
reneging on Taef. |
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Hassan Khalil: Rejecting
partnership is a rejection of Taef. |
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Nayla Moawad: Kidnapping
parliament's resolve is unjustifiable. |
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Hezbollah:
Jumblat in a hurry to send invoices to America |
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Hariri: No
compromise on tribunal or governmnet |
| Assafir |
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Assad meets
Abdullah, discuss cooperation |
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High level Arab sources told
Assafir that Saudi Arabia aims at playing a greater Arab role. This, the sources said,
would make it "inevitable for Riyad to establish a relation of trust with
Syria".They also said that Egypt should also be included in this mechanism, which
would "require reviving the Syrian-Saudi-Egyptian axis". |
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Riaydh Summit: An attempt to reactivate former Arab stances |
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Summit expected to add nothing to
the resolutions that were hastily worded by the Arab Foreign minister in their meeting two
days ago; believed to have ended before it started. |
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Amid this consensus, which bears a
great deal of courtesy towards Saudi Arabia, the Lebanese crisis could disturb calm during
the Summit's opening session despite an underlying decision to ignore it, and postpone it
till after the Summit. |
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Lahoud, Assad agree on working for a unified stance on Lebanon |
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Majority, opposition MP's face-off in Parliament |
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Dual rages between
"Hezbollah's state" and Jumblat's state". |
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Theatrics, war of words take hold
of conflicting MPs as they engage in heated statements, and counter statement. |
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Suspense wanes in second Tuesday
show, expected to lose further glitter in upcoming shows. |
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Hariri affirms resolve to resume dialogue, says tribunal coming 'to
protect Lebanon' |
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Presidential battle has started, will face crisis if parliament
remains 'kidnapped' |
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Fneish says opposition not in a hurry, insists on blocking third |
| Al-Mustaqbal |
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One Palestine, two Lebanons in Arab Summit |
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Moussa says situation in region
"very dangerous", fears Lebanon will pay the price. |
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Jumblat warns Lebanon might be on the verge of security problems - Nassir Al Asaaad |
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Says military training, arms distribution are taking place in Mount
Lebanon and other areas; reveals that truck-loads of missiles are moving back and forth
with permission from 'some' army intelligence officers. |
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Economy minister holds opposition responsible for economic devastations |
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Says opposition sit-in is illegal; declares that Paris III funds are
arriving gradually; says Lebanon is facing investors-runaway, brain drain; says tourism is
in danger of total collapse; declares that the government has already begun reforming the
electricity sector, and is preparing to privatize cellpones and Ogero. |
| Addiyar |
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Domestic split marginalizes
Labanon file at Summit |
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Amendments-war settled on
replacing 'government' with 'institutions' and 'state' |
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New dual outside parliament
meeting hall |
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Gemayel: Aoun's old slogans now
in the waste basket |
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Chamoun: Opposition twisted
thinking pushing towards Chapter 7 |
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Egyptian Ambassador: Lebanese
will shortly get all what they were hoping for |
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DFLP: Fatah al-Islam issue is
being tackled peacefully |
| Al-Balad |
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Lahoud's
remarks drop, Siniora to at Abdullah's side |
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Day of
division: Two Lebanon's under the domes of the Summit and the Parliament |
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Lahoud: Support
needed to confront attacks by superpowers |
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Siniora:
Lebanon's seven points are the basis for regaining authority |
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Gemayel: Syria
pushing strongly towards Chapter 7 |
| Al-Akhbar |
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Arab
"compromise" Summit in Riyad today |
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Assad-Abdullah
meet ends boycott as Rice leaves region empty handed |
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Ain Alaq network: Palestinian weapons reviving Syria's role?
- By Nicholas Nassif |
| Al-Siyasah |
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Lebanon on the
verge of hard choices at the beat of Iran, Golan developments |
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Scenario speaking
of two governments, two presidents after Summit |
