Abiding Lebanon insecurity seen sapping landmark deal

Aoun's stubbornness threatens to torpedo Doha accord Published: Thursday, 12 June, 2008 @ 8:16 PM in Beirut (GMT+2) Beirut- As Lebanon's Prime Minister Fouad Siniora struggles to form a government satisfactory to both the majority and opposition, MP ...

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There is little that the new president of Lebanon, Michel Suleiman, can do to push toward political stability at this time, as he, like the rest of the Lebanese, waits for the country's bickering politicians to agree on the formation of what has to ...

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The national conference, entitled "Electoral Law Tailored for the Nation," consisted of three sessions that jointly covered all aspects of the highly debated parliamentary electoral law. On behalf of President Michel Suleiman, Justice Minister ...

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We are hovering in between," said Oussama Safa who heads the Lebanese Centre for Policy Studies. The May 21 peace deal brokered in Qatar ended an 18-month political deadlock that had brought the country to the brink of civil war and saw the Shiite ...

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This piece will be followed by an in-depth feature concerned with the entire "Report and Draft Law" of the National Commission on Electoral Law and offering a more detailed glimpse into the discussions that took place at the conference. Civil ...

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Lebanese politicians ostensibly agreed in the May 21 Doha accord to extinguish the violence that was then engulfing the country, but their continuing manipulation is propelling the near-daily clashes that have erupted throughout Lebanon since the ...

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It is the basis of constitutional institutions and is the sole guarantee for people to preserve and regain their rights," Sleiman told a delegation from the Higher Judicial Council, headed by Judge Antoine Kheir, that visited him at Baabda Palace on ...

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