February 17, 2009

Lebanonwire

Lebanon Press Highlights

Nasrallah urges calm, sharing ... or the rule of the opposition - Link

Final agreement between Murr and Gemayel in northern Metn

EU offers to send a special delegation to monitor elections

Decisive session Thursday for budget as councils' crisis escalates

Siniora: State should regain its role to serve the people and not electoral interests - Link

Siniora heads security meeting - Link

Baroud: We are dealing very seriously with Saturday's assaults

Bickering renews between Berri and Siniora over the Council of the South and the Saudi grant - Link

Fadlallah: Resistance is the deterrent element in confronting Israeli greed - Link

British delegation visits Rifi - Link

Jumblat thanks participants in the February 14 rally - Link

Says the Lebanese has proven again their keenness on continuing the march

Kataeb: Assaulting participants is a model of how the elections will be undermined - Link

Nassib Lahoud calls for discussing defense strategy 'because weapons legalize chaos' - Link

March 14 calls on Baroud and Murr to take immediate measures to curb strife - Link

Raad: We are keen on the state project - Link

Khreis: We are against any strife that threatens civil peace - Link

Nasrallah: Resistance has the right to possess and use air defense weapons - Link

Calming is a priority

If we win the elections we will give them the blocking third

We denounce Zeineddine's killing

Everyone should resort to courts and institutions

As-Safir

Nasrallah urges calming - link

Denounces the killing of Zeineddine and the other incidents

Says 'partnership comes first and there is no return to the bilateral or the trilateral rule'

Says 'we have the right to possess and use air defense weapons against Israel'

Aoun suggests to Hariri investigating how state money was spent - Link

Hariri and Jumblat calls for averting strife through wisdom -  Link

Harir in Cairo, to meet Mubarak today - Link

Al-Mustaqbal

Hariri and Jumblat in Chebaniyeh: By wisdom we can avert strife - Link

Nasarallah: If we win the elections and the other side refuses sharing, the opposition will form the government alone

Kerry in Beirut today - Link

Samir Franjieh: Blocking third is dangerous because it negates the concept of the state - Link

Houri: Aoun's demand to perform elections in two days is a prelude to annulling it  - Link

Whom the Americans and the Iranians will sacrifice on the chess board - Asaad Haidar - Link

Al-Akhbar

Nasrallah: We have the resolve to use air defense weapons - Link

Jumblat continues calming - Link

Aoun Lashes at Hairi  - Link

Jumblat's criticism of consensus democracy embarrasses his allies - Ghassan Saoud - Link

National Gathering for Democratic Reform, because there is in Lebanon a non-sectarian voice - Nader Fawwaz- Link