Qatar increases stature by hosting Lebanese dialogue

Khouri Daily Star staff Saturday, May 17, 2008 The agreement among all the Lebanese political leaders to hold talks in Doha, Qatar, Friday and keep meeting until they resolve their current political impasse will probably bring peace and quiet to ...

Walid al-Moallem told the Lebanese As-Safir newspaper he had called the prime minister of Qatar and the secretary general of the Arab League to congratulate them on the deal concluded on Thursday. "We are absolutely with the initiative and we see it ...

Lebanon's feuding political leaders gathered in Qatar Friday for Arab League-brokered talks aimed at ending a long-running crisis that drove the country to the brink of a new civil war. Qatar's Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani read an opening ...

Qatar pulled off this success "because it is trusted by Lebanese factions who know that it will not be pushing its own political agenda when they meet on its soil," Qatari political analyst Mohammad al-Misfer told AFP on Friday. Qatar's Emir Sheikh ...

Lebanon’s immediate crisis has been defused after Arab mediation forged an agreement staving off the danger of civil war between the western-backed government and Hezbollah...Talks between the two sides are to continue in the Qatari capital Doha, ...

Talks aimed at ending Lebanon's protracted political crisis have opened in Qatar. Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, the emir of Qatar, opened Friday's meeting in Doha, which follow a deal brokered by the Arab League on Thursday to end the worst ...

Lebanon's rival politicians arrive in Doha for dialogue talks Published: Friday, 16 May, 2008 @ 9:44 PM in Beirut (GMT+2) Doha- Lebanon's feuding political leaders arrived in Doha for Arab-Sponsored talks aimed at ending the ongoing crisis that has ...

The talks are to be mediated by a nine-person Arab Ministerial Committee, which spent the last week attempting to diffuse the crisis. Members of the Committee released a statement detailing the findings of their preliminary investigations into the ...