November 21, 2007

Lebanonwire

Majority refuses repeat of the 1998 and 2004 experiment to impose candidate

Berri confronts pessimism, assigns date for election Friday

Sarkozi calls Assad, sends Claude Gueant to Damascus to resolve presidential crisis

Siniora: We hope the next phase will be a prelude to agreeing on a formula that would match independence and liberation after they succeeded in winning the support of the people

Third Force: As if there is an international resolve to prevent election

Zahra: Efforts to arrange meeting between Geagea and Aoun stopped

Murr: With Aoun so long as he is a candidate

Announcing state of alert is unconstitutional

Chelala: Two-government experiment was not beneficial for Lebanon's unity

Kouchner meets Moussa in Siniora's office, visits Patriarch appreciating his 'courage'

Hassan Khalil responds to Aoun: Berri is commissioned by the opposition

Liberation and Development Bloc supports Sfeir's list

Judge to review Geagea's lawsuit against Daher on December 13

Suleiman to army: Time your efforts culminate in saving country, achieve final stability

Miqati: Situation worrying if electing president fails

'Marada Current' points to possibility of riots

Lebanese Forces accuses it of 'bankruptcy'

Geagea says great hurdles face presidential election

Berri: We are in the final phase of pains...and see you Friday after the prayers

France does not object to the Russian mediation

Hariri meets Russian president in Moscow

Lavrov and Putin vow immediate contacts with Syria and Iran

As-Safir

President to be elected Friday by consensus... of the Maronites first

Jumblat: We do not want international resolutions to be implemented with Lebanese blood

Sarkozy calls Assad, sends Gueant

Riyadh supports any name appearing in Bkerki's list

Paris bets on president Friday night even if Sakozy has to visit Lebanon

Majority and opposition bet on 'H.E. the vacuum' - Dennis Atallah Haddad

Iran: Our allies in Lebanon are the ones who specify what they want

Murr: Security is under control and the army is free to move

Berri delays session to Friday, receives call form Ban Ki-moon

Lahoud for forming international commission to investigate 'Bared' events

Kouchner announces postponement of session form Bkerki before it was officially announced

Siniora: We are determined to hand the trust over to the elected president and the Parliament because staying means deepening the crisis

Army commander: "Any attack on security is national treason and any weapon directed internally is a treacherous weapon."

Ad-Diyar

Session postponed to last day and Lahoud refuses forming second government

Stormy meeting between Feltman and Aoun and Ad-Diyar publishes the details

Michel Murr: State of emergency needs the government and a 2/3 decision

Wahhab displays photos of a 'Lebanese Forces militia camp' in Maaser el Chouf

Ad-Balad

American-Iranian-Saudi contact channel to produce president

Putin intervenes, Sarkozy call Assad, Berri delays session...and the fourth is the last

Siniora: For a new understanding between independence and liberation currents

Aoun ready to pull out for another candidate if Hezbollah agrees

'Marada' warns of riots

Al-Akhbar

Aoun: President from us and the premiere from them

Kouchner meets Hezbollah, participates in Berri-Hariri meeting as Feltman looks at 'calm vacuum'

Lahoud leaves a term that found him no foothold in the coming phase - Nicholas Nassif

Kouchner bets in division in opposition ranks - Bassam Tayyara

Either Michel Edde ...or the vacuum - Tariq Tarshishi

Aounist without Aoun as president - Ghassan Saoud

Boujn Al Barajneh: Pushing for the worse - Fidaa Itani