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Committee for appointments holds first meet
The ministerial committee tasked with setting criteria for administrative appointments held its first meeting Monday at the Defense Ministry which was headed by Defense Minister Elias Murr given Prime Minister Saad Hariri’s visit to Germany.
Last week, the Cabinet tasked the committee headed by Hariri to propose a procedure and time schedule to be adopted in filling administrative vacant positions.
Minister of State for Administrative Affairs Mohammad Fneish will then take all of the proposed criteria into consideration in order to help draft a comprehensive mechanism for the process. |
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Gemayel: March 14 needs to adjust its procedures
Phalange Party chief Amin Gemayel said Sunday that the Party’s symbolic representation, in the person of its first Deputy Shaker Aoun, at the March 14 meeting at Bristol Hotel in Beirut aimed to express reservations on the work procedure adopted by the alliance.
Premier Saad Hariri did not attend the alliance’s third conference at the Bristol Hotel marking the fifth anniversary of its formation.
Speaking from Germany on Sunday, Hariri said he missed the meeting because he had to leave for Berlin.
“March 14 slogans are being emptied of their meanings through an inadequate work procedure which endangers them,” Gemayel said during a TV interview.
“We wanted the March 14 meeting to express our unity but we had reservations that we expressed through our symbolic representation,” he added. |
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Jumblatt voices regret for his past 'improper' criticism of Assad
One of Syria’s harshest critics in Lebanon in the past, Progressive Socialist Party (PSP) leader MP Walid Jumblatt said his criticism of Syrian President Bashar Assad was “improper” as he called for a new page in relations between the two countries.
Jumblatt’s harshest verbal attack against Assad came on February 14, 2007, in a speech marking former Premier Rafik Hariri’s assassination, calling the Syrian leader a “snake” and a “tyrant” and demanding revenge against him.
“These comments were improper, unfamiliar and unsuited to political ethics,” Jumblatt said in a live interview with Al-Jazeera satellite channel late Saturday.
“I said, at a moment of anger, what is improper and illogical against President Bashar Assad. It was a moment of ultimate internal tension and division in Lebanon.”
“Is it possible for them to overcome this moment and open a new page?” he asked.
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Hariri says future conflict will not be Lebanon's fault
Prime Minister Saad Hariri said over the weekend that any future war in the region would be the direct result of the international community’s inaction and failure to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
“War in the region has never been due to a decision taken by Lebanon. Any war is a direct result of inaction on the part of the international community and the failure to move seriously on the peace process,” Hariri told the German Press Agency DPA in an exclusive interview.
“All wars with Israel, in which Lebanon has been the victim of, have been launched by Israel, not by us, and Lebanon is the one who paid a very high price, in human lives, displaced people and destroyed infrastructure,” Hariri said.
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Sleiman to miss Arab summit over imam Sadr Libya feud
President Michel Sleiman will skip an Arab League summit in Libya later this month because of a diplomatic spat over the disappearance of an influential Lebanese cleric 32 years ago, a government official said Friday.
“President Sleiman will not take part in the summit in Libya based on a request by Speaker of Parliament Nabih Berri,” Agence France Presse quoted the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, as saying.
The official said it remained to be seen who would represent Lebanon at the Arab League summit, which is scheduled from March 27-28. “With two weeks left before the summit, Lebanon has yet to receive an official invitation,” they said.
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Siniora condemns 'campaign' against ISF
Former Premier MP Fouad Siniora said that discussions over a security agreement with the United States to train Internal Security Forces (ISF) should be restricted to the concerned Lebanese establishments and not be subject to allegations of betrayal.
What took place wasn’t an agreement but an accord by which the US offered a grant that included delivering aid to the ISF and the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF), the Sidon MP told visitors to his office in the town of Hlaliyeh, east of Sidon.
“It is as if the campaign against the ISF was prepared in advance to undermine the Lebanese establishments and especially the ISF,” he said, adding that all sides should support the ISF for its efforts to combat crime, terrorism, drugs and Israeli espionage networks. “The works of such Lebanese institutions should be endorsed rather than obstructed.”
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