April 15, 2008

Lebanonwire

Lebanon Press Highlights

Suleiman criticizes those falling behind in presidential elections

Berri optimistic over Egyptian support and Aoun reminds loyalist of civil war causes

Government explains reasons behind continuation of officers' detention

Tueni: I am proud of Hezbollah as a resistance but I am against it in the way it acts politically

Jumblat: We lost comprehensive national representation in the Order of Engineers elections

No one informed me I am no more authorized to negotiate on behalf of the opposition

Harb to Aoun: Presidency is vacant because of his refusal to elect the consensus president

Majdalani: Elements from downtown tents assaulted restaurant guests, wounding many

Nassib Lahoud: Getting used to vacuum is dangerous

Farid Khazen: No new data on an Arab recipe for electing president

Gemayel: 960 electoral law must be reviewed

Suleiman: Transitory government violates Taef Accord

I won't accept extending my term except in the parliament

Internal situation is stable and there won't be any security troubles

Wakim: Civil war status is on

As-Safir

Aoun holds US responsible for vacuum, prevention of consensus and undermining Arab initiative

Riyadh and Cairo: Electing president first ... then dialogue in Lebanon with Damascus!

Aoun asserts 4 loyalist MPs would soon join the 'Change Bloc'

Says Siniora is responsible for his mistakes and it won't do him good to weep before the Americans

Jumblat: Isolating Shiite candidate renders Order of Engineers elections' victory valueless

Sfeir doesn't rely on close-by solutions - Gracia Bitar

Why they are refusing dialogue - Bishara Meheij

Berri in Qatar before Saudi Arabia: My visit to Egypt is more than successful

Houri: Berri has no right to lead dialogue because he has resigned as parliament speaker

Nassib Lahoud warns of extending the term of the parliament

Harb to Aoun: Taef stopped the war but did not limit the authority of the president

Government: Continuing to detain the eight persons charged with Hariri killing is legal

Al-Mutaqbal

Government asserts legality of arresting the four officers charged with Hariri killing

Amy commander refuses to violate Taef by heading a transitory government

Calls on deputies to elect a president

Moussa: Holding Arab ministerial meeting necessary, and Damascus can't prevent that

Jumblat to Al-Mustaqbal: I call for reopening the files of Sayiddat al Najat, Qassir, Irani and Al-Medina for the Nabi Ayla gang

Al-Balad

Arab loaf on the road of Arab solution

Army to begin digging in Halat today in search for mass burial places

Al-Akhbar

Cairo: Berri conveyed a 'Syrian initiative' for solution

Order of Engineers Elections consecrates the game of numbers in political conflict - Jean Aziz

Paris preparing for a ministerial meeting in Kuwait in support of the Lebanese govt. - Bassam Tayyara

Russians preparing for an active Mediterranean return despite sluggishness - Ghassan Saoud

Loyalists MPs 'fire' Berri as speaker, say he has eliminated himself

Wakim: We are at the heart of civil war