May 16, 2008

Lebanonwire

Lebanon Press Highlights

Arab committees achieves quick breakthrough; Beirut shakes dust of disobedience & closures

Phoenicia agreement: Weapons on the table ... and no victor or vanquished

Doha dialogue: Continuous sessions till electing Suleiman?

Sheikh Hamad announces agreement from Phoenicia

Dialogue to begin today in Doha in accordance with a set agenda:   Government, Electoral law, ending sit-in once Suleiman is elected, ending armed appearances, opening roads, and a pledge not to use arms in internal conflicts

Bush: Al Qaeda, Hezbollah and Hamas will be defeated

Suleiman: The military establishment is united

Sfeir in New York: Electing president is a pressing need

Government is being boycotted by a sect that was not listened to

Sarkis: If they back down on agreement, the government will reinstate its two decisions

Harb: Amending Taef will undermine Lebanon's formula of mutual coexistence

Arslan: We have dispelled the black cloud; Qansou: Mountain unity is a redline

Qabalan: Bush is challenging Moslems

Fadlallah: Talking about strife is not realistic

Shiite Council appoints Hassan Abdallah as Tyre Mufti instead on Ali Al-Amine

From An-Nahar's diplomatic Pouch

Hezbollah's coup: Three dangerous possibilities

Coerced military solution transforms Lebanon into both, Gaza and Iraq

Gemayel: Lebanon is suffering form the outcome of an adventure

Chamoun: They won't be able to destroy the country

As-Safir

Sudden Arab consensus takes Lebanon's rival leaders to Doha

Berri and Hariri welcome agreement, Siniora views it as positive, and Geagea express reservation

First political contact between Jumblat and Nasrallah

Suleiman to Aoun: Together we can build the state

Dialogue to begin today in Doha between Lebanon's top leaders

Discussions to cover formation of government and the electoral law

Bin Jassem: There are guarantees that weapons won't be used again for political gains

Saudi Arabia supports dialogue, won't undermine it

Hezbollah: Presidency is set for Suleiman; No new conditions; and no victor or vanquish

Fadlallah: We are keen on Islamic unity in as much as we are keen on the resistance

National Bloc: Military blackmailing caused backing down by government

Gemayel: We want assurances that Hezbollah's adventure won't be repeated

Al-Mustaqbal

Arab committee succeeds in bringing situation back to what it was before May 8

Doha Dialogue today to deal with the relation between state and armed groups

Hezbollah and team end Beirut and airport siege

Devilish 'intelligence' seeds grow near Rafic Hariri's hospital

Arab ministerial committe reaches a 7-point agreement

Sheikh Hamad announces start of dialogue in Doha today

Agreement reached on abstaining from or returning to using weapons for political gains

Harb: Berri is no more authorized to sponsor dialogue

Discussing a new Taef will undermine Christians' rights

Al-Balad

Solution launched and Sundays surprise will be electing a president

Hamad and Moussa meet Nasrallah to guarantee agreement

Agreement on dialogue in Qatar and on ending civil disobedience

Al-Akhbar

Doha conference:  Truce and an opportunity for solution

Public satisfaction, political concern, American reservation, Syrian and French support, and  bewilderment over the Saudi stance

Hezbollah before a test between Lebanon Sunnites and the Arabs - Ibrahim Al Amin

Army a partner in Lebanon's reconciliation - Nicholas Nassif

Future splits into three currents in fragmented Beirut - Thaer Ghandour

1982 specter revives mountain fears  -Nisrine Zaheddine

Palestininans: We are no more the Sunnites army - Abdel Kafi Samad