Suleiman, Hariri Discuss Dialogue but No Final Answer on His Participation
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
President Michel Suleiman said he hasn’t pressured al-Mustaqbal movement leader ex-PM Saad Hariri to respond to him on an invitation for the National Dialogue at Baabda Palace set for June 11.
In remarks to As Safir daily published Saturday, Suleiman said: “I didn’t ask him to attend the dialogue session but discussions focused on the advantages and the disadvantages of the National Dialogue.”
Suleiman met with Hariri in Jeddah on Friday during a luncheon hosted by Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal. The president was in Saudi Arabia for talks with King Abdullah.
“I neither pressured him (to provide me) with a specific answer nor he provided it with a negative or positive answer, Suleiman said.
The president also told As Safir that he took the initiative to contact Hariri before heading to Saudi Arabia and the two agreed to meet during the luncheon.
“We shouldn’t forget that Hariri is the leader of a respectable Lebanese faction and we want everyone to return to Lebanon and contribute to the dynamics of dialogue,” he said.
The president hailed Hariri for playing an important role during the security incidents in the northern city of Tripoli and the area of Akkar and his efforts to secure the release of 11 Lebanese Shiite pilgrims abducted in Syria.
Suleiman called for the National Dialogue after the incidents threatened to spiral out of control.
The March 8 coalition that makes up the majority of the cabinet said it would attend the all-party talks but the March 14 coalition, which al-Mustaqbal movement is part of, hasn’t yet announced an official stance on its participation.
But the alliance said earlier this month that dialogue should be held under a neutral salvation government and not Premier Najib Miqati’s cabinet.
02 June 2012, 10:22
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Dear Sheikh Saad. Don't sit with the killers of your father and many others, They have nothing to tell you. Don't give them any legitimacy which they are imposing on all lebanese at gunpoint. Don' t do like what you did when you visited the murderer still in power in Damascus to try to appease him. See the result. The guys you will meet should be in LaHague not in Baabda sitting around a table. Any one sitting on a table with an armed thug is not at par to discuss anything before even talking starts. Irrespective whether he owns or uses his arms. Owning them is tantamount to using them at will. History has proved it. You have been down this avenue before.It hasn't led to anything. Army - Lebanese - Resistance if to be discussed = Hizbollah !
02 June 2012, 10:22
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They have spent years infiltrating army command. We have seen it in the south. We have seen it in Akkar with the murder of a Sheikh recently. They flexed muscle with the army with the killing of pilot Hanna in the south. In Chyah with the army. They have submitted it to their will. They're murderers who can get away with any murder under strife, and ' political security ' mottos. Under blackmail and TERROR. They're terrorists. DON' T SIT WITH THEM !
02 June 2012, 10:25
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From the setup, it was a meeting between Sleiman and Saud el Faisal and mini-hariri the advisor of his excellency was learning and listening from the master
02 June 2012, 13:03
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improvment in their habal, no more adou el sayuni?????was it a cover to let the faqihi invade?????
02 June 2012, 16:20
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@karim_m1: The Saudis support whomever is in power, you're confused and mixing apples and oranges because your master Aoun has no other political choice except the Iranian/Syrian terrorists and extremists , extremists create more extremism, when Hizbollah suicidal bomb of the Marines in 1982 they have set the role model of extremism and for Al-Qaeda to later exist which was never born back then. Hizbollah learned from the PLO/Sa3eka-Syria how to terrorize (i.e. Damour) and acquired weapons and training from Iran versus Al-Qaeda abuse of Saudi money to terrorize, when you see towns are being massacred (i.e. Damour, Houla) you simply created extremism on all sides. Conclusion two wrongs do not make it right so do not blame the Saudis for what the Iranian are/have been doing for a long time.
02 June 2012, 17:11
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Karim. let me finish your last sentence for you (you probably ran out of time or space).
NO TO WELAYAT ELFAQIH, NO TO SECTERIAN ARMS, NO TO SYRIA'S INTERVENTION IN LEBANON, NO TO STATE WITHIN A STATE.
Yes to a free, sovereign and independent Lebanon with the army being the sole protector of all.
02 June 2012, 10:30
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Don't comme to Lebanon either.They will kill you and pretend you died in a road accident. Or that the Israelis did it. The Israelis which they dubb to be your allies when they please ! They will know through their spies in the airport the minute your plane lands on the runway. See what happened to Gibran. Don't be another Gibran . You can only come back when they'll be behind bars, like Milosevic was. The guy whom you met in KSA is worthless. Strife IS here. A smokeless one so far. A bloodless one. Until when ?
02 June 2012, 11:49
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Karim i want to ask you few questions.
Do you have any family members living and working in KSA.
What currncey do use ?
My advise to you is leave Lebanon and fuck off to Syria or Iran you jerk Lebanon would be better place without people like you .God bless Lebanon and all the Gulf States..
03 June 2012, 01:28
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Karim el Ahbal back again talkinga bout freedom ,democracy no to terrorism ?
Hizbollah :Democracy?terrorism?
Aoun :Freedom?
£ama shou ennak ahbal wlo
