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A Lebanese-Syrian summit may be held shortly, report

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The Lebanese An-Nahar newspaper quoted an informed source on Sunday as saying that a Lebanese-Syrian summit may be held in the coming hours.

The summit would reportedly aim at following up on the Baabda summit in tackling domestic and regional developments as well as bilateral relations.

Reuters also reported today that a summit will be held in Saudi Arabia on Sunday between Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. It is not clear which summit will take place first.

Local media reported that Lebanon Prime Minister Saad Hariri left for Jeddah, Saudi Arabia last night. It is not clear whether the trip is aimed at participation in the Saudi summit

The Syrian President , the Saudi King, and President Michel Suleiman held a summit in July in Baabda in a bid to defuse political tension.

Tension escalated in Lebanon following reports that the Special Tribunal for Lebanon will soon issue its indictment into the 2005 assassination of Lebanon’s former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. Last July, Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said that the tribunal is “an Israeli project” that will indict Hezbollah members. Nasrallah accused Israel of being behind Hariri’s assassination but refused to provide the evidence to STL to support his claim.

There are concerns that should the court indict Hezbollah members, it could lead to clashes similar to those of the May 7, 2008 events when the Iranian backed Shiite militants occupied the Sunni part of Beirut and tried but failed to occupy the Druze stronghold of Mt Lebanon

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12 responses to “A Lebanese-Syrian summit may be held shortly, report”

  1. guss043 Avatar
    guss043

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    Anonymous

    Haj baka, chi byekaref minkoun, intou wa souria wi arafkon malla rouassa mritin ,minak lal hariiri ,kiss asses

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    guss043

    Elias Sarkis didn’t go that far and he was surrounded by tanks !!!!

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    Anonymous

    Elias Sarkis didn’t go that far and he was surrounded by tanks !!!!

  5. joseph_phdmath Avatar
    joseph_phdmath

    president bashar is a nice man
    the problem is ahmadinijidad is a bad influence on him
    lebanon and syria have been friends in history for hundred of years and they shall remain friends and they need to push iran away from them because it is stiring problems between the two sister countries

    1. Hannibal Avatar
      Hannibal

      FOR GOD’S SAKE Joseph please stop talking… Go back to your Math. Bashar is a nice man? Ruling in a dictatorship and ordering all the killing and the jailing of your fellow Lebanese makes him a nice man? Go to Syria and post a blog against his regime like you do post in the States and taste the wrath of his mukhabaraat. You will be solving differential equations on the walls of Mazze jail.

  6. joseph_phdmath Avatar
    joseph_phdmath

    president bashar is a nice man
    the problem is ahmadinijidad is a bad influence on him
    lebanon and syria have been friends in history for hundred of years and they shall remain friends and they need to push iran away from them because it is stiring problems between the two sister countries

    1. Hannibal Avatar
      Hannibal

      FOR GOD’S SAKE Joseph please stop talking… Go back to your Math. Bashar is a nice man? Ruling in a dictatorship and ordering all the killing and the jailing of your fellow Lebanese makes him a nice man? Go to Syria and post a blog against his regime like you do post in the States and taste the wrath of his mukhabaraat. You will be solving differential equations on the walls of Mazze jail.

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    Anonymous

    president bashar is a nice man

    the problem is ahmadinijidad is a bad influence on him

    lebanon and syria have been friends in history for hundred of years and they shall remain friends and they need to push iran away from them because it is stiring problems between the two sister countries

    1. Hannibal Avatar
      Hannibal

      FOR GOD’S SAKE Joseph please stop talking… Go back to your Math. Bashar is a nice man? Ruling in a dictatorship and ordering all the killing and the jailing of your fellow Lebanese makes him a nice man? Go to Syria and post a blog against his regime like you do post in the States and taste the wrath of his mukhabaraat. You will be solving differential equations on the walls of Mazze jail.

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    joseph_phdmath

    to hannibal
    look president bashar has made too many positive moves toward lebanon first he has withdrawn all his troops and pledge his support
    second he has opened a syrian embassy in lebanon declaring his acceptance of lebanon sovreignity and other good things this man is a good man lebaneese need to respect him and work with him
    the regime he has he did not creat it neither he did invented it he was born in it
    and he inherited and had no other choice but to stay in it and he is really did so many positive things to change toward lebanon and if you want to dwell on the past and cry over the lebanese who died in the war with syria he can also dwell and cry over the thousands of syrians soldiers that have died in lebanon also
    but the war is over and lebanon need to be nice with this man because he is taking too many positive moves toward the lebaneese
    just remeber he got an old cruel regime he has to deal with he ca,nt change 360 degrees in 2years he needs time and if he were to change evrything to democracy so fast his own regime will assasinate him its in lebanon best interrest to work with him and keep him in power because in my heart ifeel really that he is a man of peace
    then again i am pro democracy when we see a positive sign we should try to build on it

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    Anonymous

    to hannibal

    look president bashar has made too many positive moves toward lebanon first he has withdrawn all his troops and pledge his support

    second he has opened a syrian embassy in lebanon declaring his acceptance of lebanon sovreignity and other good things this man is a good man lebaneese need to respect him and work with him

    the regime he has he did not creat it neither he did invented it he was born in it

    and he inherited and had no other choice but to stay in it and he is really did so many positive things to change toward lebanon and if you want to dwell on the past and cry over the lebanese who died in the war with syria he can also dwell and cry over the thousands of syrians soldiers that have died in lebanon also

    but the war is over and lebanon need to be nice with this man because he is taking too many positive moves toward the lebaneese

    just remeber he got an old cruel regime he has to deal with he ca,nt chage 360 degrees in 2years he needs time and if he were to change evrything to democracy so fast his own regime will assasinate him its in lebanon best interrest to work with him and keep him in power

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