November 14, 2007

Lebanonwire

Sfeir surmounts 1988 complex, responds to the plead of naming candidates

List of  6 candidates including Aoun, Harb and Lahoud to be concluded today

Kouchner achieves a breakthrough and the ball is now in the two sides court

Ban Ki-Moon in Beirut tomorrow

Ban informs Security Council of nominating Bellemare to succeed Brammartz

Former Lebanese FBI employee admits to searching for info on Hezbollah

Iran denies sending weapons to Hezbollah

Tueni visits Berri and Gemayel

Says 'we agreed on continuing to seek compromise'

President Lahoud: Those impeding the election of a compromise president will bear a great responsibility

Hariri: Syrian regime playing a double game

Says it supports compromise while attacking the French initiative

Siniora informed about Ban's support for Lebanon's stability, forming tribunal

Gemayel, Franjieh meeting calls for confronting strife, supporting a president who would regain the Christian role

Hamadeh: We shall continue to support compromise on president and government

Karami: If we reach deadend, a constitutional measure will surely be taken

Loyalty to Resistance: There is a short span to save Lebanon through compromise

Pakradoni from Rabieh: Gemayel's nomination for presidency is still on

Ban to arrive tomorrow, Moussa and D'Alema Friday and Kouchner to return Monday

German Charge D'Affair: No arms smuggling to Lebanon by sea

As-Safir

List of  6 candidates to be set by Bkerki before November 21

Kouchner leaves Lebanon cautiously optimistic and Welch postpones visit to Beirut

Feltman reproves Aoun...and Hariri and Berri rejects language of war

Would Franjieh back Gemayel if March 14 nominates him? - Dennis Atallah Haddad

Pakradoni from Rabieh: Siniora's era is over and there will either be a new president or a transitory government

Hariri: Nasrallah's speech had a bad echo

His words and those of Ahmad Jibril were coerced by Syria who is foiling initiatives

Opposition pleads to Lahoud to take a salivation step

Al-Mustaqbal

Kouchner to the Lebanese: The decision is yours and the international community backs you

Hezbollah's speech continues to have adverse effects on markets

Demand for Dollar increases amid retraction in Lebanese Pound deposits

...When Nasrallah's tongue turns into an explosive charge in the hand of Assef Shawkat - Fares Khashan

Ad-Diyar

Kouchner fails to get a list from Patriarch Sfeir

Exceptional international efforts exerted to salvage the presidential election before arriving at partitioning Lebanon

Economic and financial crises on the verge of exploding and the need is for 10 billion

Graziano: Situation in Lebanon complicated; preparing to face developments needed

Jibril preparing for a Bared-type operation and Hezbollah wants to expand its security quarters

Saad: Crisis likely to continue for a long time

Ad-Balad

Presidential elections subject to Patriarch Sfeir's list

Kouchner: If Berri respects constitutional deadlines, election will occur on Nov. 21

Urges Lebanese leaders to agree on a consensus president

Hamadeh: Nsrallah and Jibril declared war against the Lebanese regime

Nasrallah to a Palestinian delegation: Rumors of strife are now entombed

Al-Akhbar

Sfeir presents list of 6 candidates: Nothing is conclusive

Kouchner's theater continues; Maronite split unchanged; and an international campaign to pressure opposition is on

FBI scandal wipes out a Lebanese agent

Koucnner backs Sfeir by vowing to pressure opposition - Ibrahim al Amine

Everyone'e interest is in crossing the French bridge to consensus - Arafat Hijazi

Hariri: Opposition unable to form a second government