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Hariri made the announcement in addressing an Iftar banquet, hardly two hours after meeting the Hezbollah team at his Beirut residence.

By meeting the Hezbollah team "we broke thick ice," Hariri said.

The meeting was meant to achieve a "disengagement of the popular clash," Hariri said.

"We would not issue a certificate of pardon to anybody … history would judge who caused harm to the capital," he added.

"We shoulder the responsibility of safeguarding the second independence … achieved by the March 14 alliance," Hariri said as the cheerful crowd applauded.

"We want the state and the army to be the arbitrators. We don't want Beirut to remain a hostage of factional sedition," Hariri stressed.

He said the Taif accord "remains the framework that commands national tracks as well as the state base."

Hariri praised the speech of President Michel Suleiman in New York and his commitment to the international tribunal.

"This speech is a new motivation for the national dialogue" he said

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Tags: Hariri, Hezbollah, Lebanon, source: Naharnet, Tribunal, Ya Libnan