U.N. Security Council Says Presidential Elections Local Lebanese Affair
The United Nations Security Council held a meeting to discuss the implementation of resolution 1701 that ended the 2006 war between Israel and Hizbullah and the upcoming presidential elections in Lebanon.
The meeting, which was held in the form of closed-door consultations, stressed the need to stage the upcoming presidential elections, An Nahar newspaper reported on Thursday.
“The presidential elections is a pure Lebanese affair that no other country, including Syria, could have a role in it,” the newspaper quoted attendees as saying.
The Security Council meeting stressed the need of electing a “Lebanese president within the constitutional deadline.”
President Michel Suleiman's six-year term ends in May but the Constitution states that the parliament should start meeting March 25 to elect a new head of state.
Several contenders from the rival March 8 and 14 camps are expected to run for presidency.
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lol
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Karim you are wrong.
We are not getting the ideology of saudi arabia. Far from it. It is them who are coming to lebanon to play and get our ideology.
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he means sunnism, that's what krimo is fighting...
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No I dont mean Sunnism, I mean Wahabist ideology.
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@Karim : I get you don't want Saudi meddling in our affairs but you traitor have no problem with Iran and Syria arming and funding terrorisms and criminal organisations in Lebanon right ?
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Of course, none of this has anything to do with the Taef Accord's allocation of half the seats in the Lebanese parliament to Lebanon's small but vigorous Christian community.
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chrisrushlau. you are really a christian hater. aren't you?
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They want syria not to have a say in the presidential election...
But this will not work. Because Assad is bent on delaying this deadline, and generally screwing lebanon in any way possible.
His mission statement is to reinforce groups in lebanon which undermine the state, and increase chaos such as his ungrateful palest. groups, his commie SSNP, his filthy baath, his bloodsucker amal,
In other words, stay of Lebanese affairs, Saudi Arabia. We dont want your culture, we dont want your ideology, and we dont want your terrorism.