Reactions to the Bsarma clashes continues but the leader of Marada , Suleiman Franjieh and the leader of the Lebanese Forces, Dr Samir Geagea have urged their supporters to remain calm

Sources from the Administration and judicial committee have reported that the issue of voting by Lebanese abroad will be wrapped up today during a meeting between one of the members of the committee and FM Salloukh

The president is heading to New Your this Sunday on a private plane to represent Lebanon at the UN General Assembly meetings . He will be on September 25 in Washington at the White House for a summit with US president George W Bush.
According to diplomatic sources Suleiman will insist during his meeting with Bush that Israel should immediately withdraw from the Shebaa farms and Kfarshouba and hand them over to the UN until the borders are demarcated and identity determined in order to reduce tension in south Lebanon and eliminate the reason for the presence of the resistance ( Hezbollah) . But the same sources caution that Israel is not currently in a position to make such an important position, because Tzipi Livni has just been elected as the head of the Kadima party and she has to form a government first. Besides Livni is known to oppose handing over the Shebaa farms to the UN before getting a guarantee from the Lebanese government that Shebaa will not be used by Hezbollah to launch attacks against Israel.

Friday

19:39 Siniora after meeting Suleiman : the special treatment of Beirut as far as the electricity service is concerned was done for the sake of the economy. Beirut will have fewer blackouts than the rest of the country

17:40 Premier Siniora meets President Suleiman at Baabda Palace.

16:00 Daniele Bellmare , Head of the international commission probing the Hariri Crime meets President Suleiman.

15:18 Administration and Justice Committee adopts the principle of holding the 2009 parliamentary elections in one day
And also adopts the principle of allowing Lebanese living abroad to vote. However, the committee postponed putting the principle into practice until 2013 citing statements from the Foreign Ministry to the effect that it would be impossible enact in the 2009.

15:09 Gen. Georges Wehbe to lead preliminary investigations into the Koura shooting incident along with Judge Jean Fahd.

12:35 Speaker Berri from Baabda after meeting president Suleiman : I will call for a parliamentary session to ratify the electoral law before the end of this month.
The dialogue talks were delayed to create the right atmosphere that will facilitate reconciliation throughout Lebanon. Expanding the dialogue talks is not up to me , it is up to the participants themselves

12:00 President Michel Suleiman meets Speaker Nabih Berri at the Baabda Palace.

12:00 Abbas Hashem told NBN TV: what is needed is positive neutrality to complete the reconciliation. The ones that will pay the price are those that have played roles that are larger than they are and anyone contemplating on messing around with the security of the state will pay dearly for his action

11:30 Mikati : If I was the state I would not have allowed Hezbollah to hold onto its arms without international guarantees by the major countries and the participants in the dialogue should establish a system to monitor these arms

11:10 Qumati told Al Manar TV: There is a mutual desire on the parts of Hezbollah and al Mustaqbal movement to facilitate a meeting between Hariri and Nasrallah , but technical and security issues have prevented this meeting from taking place up till now

10:36 Minister Ibrahim Shamseddine told to LBC: We cannot call for a state and act as though we had nothing to do with it. I heard things I had not expected in the cabinet meeting

10:08 Former MP Nicolas Ghosn told the Voice of Lebanon : The calls of various political parties for calm did not succeed in limiting the repercussions of the Koura shoot out between the supporters of the Lebanese Forces and Marada.He added that President Michel Suleiman and Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Sfeir could work together to improve the situation of the Lebanese Christians.

09:30 Okaz : a major security plan is in place to protect the participants in the Lebanese Forces mass( to honor its martyrs on Sunday in Jounieh) in the event a third party tries to cause trouble similar to what happened in Koura

08:50 Michel Moawad told Voice of Lebanon: Any inter Christian fight and any departure from the logic of a state is a big loss for all and Bkirki and baabda have an important role to play in this regard

08:37 Minister of Tourism Elie Marouni told Voice of Lebanon: The cabinet emphasized the necessity of stabilizing the security situation once and for all, and that Minister of State for Administrative Reform Ibrahim Shamsuddine did not walk out of the cabinet session on Thursday.

07:10 Four Lebanese pilgrims identified as Mohammad Baydoun, Mohammad Bawab, Houssam Baalbeki and Riwa Jazaeri are killed and 35 are injured in a bus accident en route to Medina in Saudi Arabia.

07:00 Al Akhbar : a meeting will be held before the end of Ramadan between a high level Hezbollah delegation and MP Saad Hariri in preparation for the expected meeting between Nasrallah and Hariri

06:37 Sources from the Administration and judicial committee have reported that the issue of voting by Lebanese abroad will be wrapped up today during a meeting between one of the members of the committee and FM Salloukh

06:13 March 14 source told al Safir: No problem about finalizing the new electoral law on September 25 or at any time the speaker decides as stipulated in the Doha accord

06:00 Hariri met last night at his home in Quraitem PSP minister wael Abou Faour as a follow up to his meting the night before with MP Walid Jumblatt

05:59 Suleiman will travel to USA, Canada, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Italy . His summit with Bush is next Thursday September 25

05:55 Taborian : The cabinet decided to provide power to Beirut 21 hours a day and to provide power equally to the rest of the country . In other words time of blackouts in the rest of the country will be the same in all the regions. Usually during the summer high season the blackouts in the summer resort areas are less frequent than the rest of the country

05:45 An Nahar : Minister of administrative development Ibrahim Shamsuddin left the cabinet meeting early

05:37 an Nahar Jumblatt and Hariri are discussing and coordinating a unified political vision for all the future issues

Thursday

22:16 Suspect in the Chtoura bomb Mohammad Mahmoud Muslimani was arrested

21:25 Hariri met at his home in Quraitem minister of State Wael Abou Faour to discuss current development

20:37 PM Siniora during an Iftar at the Grand serial: The dialogue requires serious commitments from all of us and efforts to achieve reconciliation

20:09 Army helicopters with the help of civil defense extinguishes a huge fire in the industrial area of Amsheet

19:55 NOW Lebanon: The Wednesday night meeting between Future Movement leader MP Saad Hariri and PSP leader MP Walid Jumblatt in Qoreitem was exceptional because of issues they discussed. The sources said that the meeting focused on strategy and the values of the March 14 alliance.

19:20 Tires being set on fire on Ouzaii road ( Hezbollah stronghold) in protest against the power blackouts , but the security forces is trying to reopen the road

18:32 Minister Baroud briefed president Suleiman on the security situation in the north during his visit to Baabda presidential palace

18:01 Patriarch Sfeir discussed with former minister Fouad Boutros the developments in Lebanon

17:55 Minister Mitri: The cabinet went over the response of UN chief in which he expressed his concerns over the Israeli threats and violations as outlined in the Lebanese letter to the UN and stressed the importance of enforcing UN SCR 1701

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