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The source said that a delegation from the League will visit Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea on Wednesday and will meet with Phalange Party chief Amin Gemayel and Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun the next day.

On Friday, the delegation will hold talks with MP Nayla Mouawad.

The source told An Nahar that President Michel Suleiman, before heading to New York, contacted Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Sfeir, urging him to help achieve reconciliation among the country's Christians, which is why Sfeir blessed the efforts exerted by the Maronite League in his Sunday sermon.

"I did the best I could to help in the success of the reconciliation and I hope that the attempt would lead" to good results, An Nahar quoted Sfeir as saying.

The source said the League will inform Suleiman upon his return to Lebanon about its contacts over the weekend with Marada movement leader Suleiman Franjieh who said that reconciliation should be achieved at the Baabda Palace and then get Sfeir's "blessing" in Bkirki.

Reconciliation efforts intensified after two people were killed and three wounded in clashes last week between the Lebanese Forces and Marada in the town of Bsarma in the northern Lebanese province of Koura.

In a related development , the ongoing investigation into the Bsarma crime has established that the two victims, Pierre Ishaq and Youssef Franjieh, were killed by the same weapon.

The pan-Arab daily al-Hayat reported that Franjieh was hit with one bullet that was fatal, while Ishaq had five bullet wounds in his body.

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Tags: Lebanon, source: Naharnet, Ya Libnan