April 14, 2008

Lebanonwire

Lebanon Press Highlights

Mounting Arab campaign for Lebanon races with April 22 date

Fate of dialogue to be finalized in days, and Berri to Qatar after Cairo

Israel fears Iran may send arms to Hezbollah via Beirut port

Jordan King reiterates support to government, warns of repercussions

Siniora on 33rd anniversary if civil war: No to desperation, no to giving up, no to returning to war

Says was encouraged to continue working for solution

Says parliament is open 'more than necessary, and electing president would cut need for dialogue

Sfeir: Lebanon is on the brink of collapse and all efforts should be made to save it

March 14 workshop: Taef and building the modern state

Fneish: Siniora is the sheikh of obstructers and any electoral law won't give his team the majority

Aridi: No civil war in Lebanon and the substitute to dialogue is vacuum

Salam criticizes inability of political leaders, calls for electing Suleiman immediately

Bassil accuses Americans, government of seeking to settle Palestinians in Lebanon

Berri to visit Qatar after Egypt

Saudi Arabia did not fix a date for his visit

Mubrak encouraged him but was not convinced by his ideas

Fadlallah: Iraq is a witness to the age of the American crime

As-Safir

Rice: What is wrong with vacuum and extending the mandate of the current parliament?

Mubarak supports Berri's efforts, and Abdullah the Second warns Siniora of extending the stalemate

Berri meets Mubarak, Moussa, Suleiman, and Abul Geith denies knowledge of a summit for Lebanon

Berri: Egypt expressed support for dialogue and there no chance for a meeting of Arab FMs

Aoun: Lebanon can't bear settling even one person; we encourage secularism, but the people aren't ready

Jordan King warns of regional perils for Lebanon crisis

Sisson: Solving Lebanon's conflict is easy if countries like Syria stop meddling

Nichola: MPs from the majority will join the 'Change Bloc'

Bassil discuses land-buying operations

Says if settling Palestinians was a lie then all the martyrs have died for a lie

Arslan in Soueida, Syria: It is for Lebanon's good to encourage it to integrate with Syria

Siniora: We won't permit transforming our democratic regime into another

Al-Mutaqbal

Lebanon engineers are March 14

March 14 and allies win all seats in the Order of Engineers elections

Hezbollah chief ordered moving Mughniyeh's body before being seen by the Syrian intelligence

Quoting a Hezbollah official, Fars news agency says 'The next confrontation will be an attack in the 1948 territories'

Al-Balad

March 14 and allies win Order of Engineers elections in Beirut and North Lebanon

Berri's "state" in Cairo and Siniora's "state" in Amman

Sfeir: Lebanon heading to collapse

FPM warns of settling Palestinians in Lebanon, says "we will defend or land and honor

Civil Society: We are the yeast of change - Diana Skeini

Mechanism of history leads to Shiites and Sunnites - Pierre Aqiqi

Al-Akhbar

Would the amy commander form a transitory government?

March 14 forces win Order of Engineers elections

Suleiman a compromise candidate of two regimes more than being a consensus candidate of two Lebanon's - Nicholas Nassif

Berri holds an amicable meeting with Mubarak - Khaled Ramadan

Two Arab tours...but the crisis is long - Tariq Tarshisi

April 13 memory hovers over Lebanon