Lebanese President Michel Suleiman who is on an official 3 day visit to Russia, urged Russian President Vladimir Putin during their meeting on Wednesday to back calls for a global conference on helping Lebanon cope with Syrian refugee crisis
Lebanon: Reaction to Obama’s re-election
The top three Lebanese leaders congratulated on Wednesday president Barack Obama on his re election for another four years as the U.S. president. President Michel Suleiman, said in a cable to Obama:
Berri denied discussing Boutros proposal with Suleiman
Speaker Nabih Berri denied in remarks published on Thursday discussing the Fouad Boutros electoral proposal with President Michel Suleiman. “ The reports regarding agreement with the president over the adoption of the Boutros electoral law is devoid of truth,” Berri told Al-Akhbar newspaper, adding that the issue never came up during his discussion with the […]
Lebanon centrists distancing themselves from Syria
President Michel Suleiman’s changing position on Syria has recently become more evident through several of his actions according to political and parliamentary sources. Suleiman’s request that Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour protest to Syrian Ambassador to Lebanon Ali Abdel-Karim Ali about Syrian violations of Lebanon’s border;
Suleiman ignores Assad on Eid el Fitr
The pro-Syrian newspaper al Akhbar reported that for the first time since 2008 Lebanese president did not contact his Syrian counterpart Bashar al Assad to congratulate him on the occasion of Eid el Fitr at the end of the holy month of Ramadan.
Geagea urges Suleiman, Mikati to expel Syrian envoy
Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea on Monday called on President Michel Suleiman and Prime Minister Najib Mikati to “expel Syrian Ambassador to Lebanon Ali Abdel Karim Ali , ask the Lebanese ambassador to Syria to return to Lebanon, suspend the Lebanese-Syrian Higher
Suleiman: Lebanon danger is from within
President Michel Suleiman warned of threats against Lebanon during a tour in Jbeil towns on Tuesday, but stressed that the main danger facing the country is from within, National News Agency reported. “We can rectify the storm around us and we will. But the danger is from the small, filthy storm inside the [country],”
Jumblatt relations with Hezbollah deteriorating
MP Walid Jumblatt’s relations with Hezbollah appear to be deteriorating. He said during an Iftar dinner in the Chouf region of Mt Lebanon over the weekend that his alliance with Hezbollah under the slogan of ‘Army, people and resistance,’ cannot continue at the expense of the state
Jumblatt warns over a March 8 victory in 2013 polls
Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblatt warned on Saturday during an iftar dinner that he hosted at the Mukhtara palace that if March 8 wins the upcoming parliamentary elections, there will be no place for a state of law and order in Lebanon. “If March 8 wins the 2013 parliamentary elections, I do not […]
Jumblatt ,Suleiman discuss electoral law, security
President Michel Suleiman visited Friday evening Progressive Socialist party leader MP Walid Jumblatt who hosted a dinner in his honor at his residence in Mukhtara, Shouf , in the presence of his son, Timor and PSP ministers: Ghazi Aridi, Aladdin Terru and Wael Abu Faour.