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UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon Michael Williams submitted on Tuesday his report on the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1701 in which he condemned Israel for violating the decree. He noted Israel’s air raids on Lebanon as well as the...
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A national unity cabinet based on the 15-10-5 formula is expected to see light in the next 48 hours. Both parliamentary and opposition sources claimed Friday that the distribution of portfolios was nearly complete, with only a few details still requiring...
Tags: Saad Hariri, Nabih Berri, cabinet formation, Michel Aoun, designate saad, prime minister, parliamentary elections, Lebanon Michael Williams, George Adwan
Following his meeting with Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun in Rabieh on Wednesday, UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon Michael Williams said he is concerned about recent violations to UN Security Council Resolution 1701, including Tuesday’s...
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Following his meeting with Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri in downtown Beirut, UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon Michael Williams said that Lebanon needs a new government to confront local and regional challenges and that concessions will be necessary.
Tags: Lebanon Michael Williams, Michel Aoun, Saad Hariri, designate saad, cabinet formation, mp michel, leader mp, Sejaan Kazzi, Kataeb, prime minister
The UN’s special coordinator for Lebanon said on Sunday that the existence of weapons in the country outside of Lebanese governmental control was a strictly domestic issue. In a message to the Voice of Lebanon Radio to mark the forthcoming UN Day, Williams...
Following his meeting with outgoing Prime Minister Fouad Siniora at the Grand Serail on Thursday, UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon Michael Williams said the meeting between Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdel Aziz and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus...
Tags: Fouad Siniora, Lebanon Michael Williams, Lebanon Rahma al-Zouabi
Following his meeting with Speaker Nabih Berri on Thursday, UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon Michael Williams said the UN wants to see the formation of a cabinet as soon as possible in order to address the security, economic and social challenges faced...
We do not dissuade parties on the ground by putting up a roadblock or using firearms. We do it with the moral authority we carry,” he said. “Dissuasion is stronger in that context than if you come in and start pointing weapons at people. “You don’t...
Tags: Lebanon Michael Williams
During an interview with Al-Balad newspaper to be published on Wednesday, Lebanon First bloc MP Okab Sakr defended Prime Minister-designate Saad Haririâs cabinet proposal, saying that Hariri had extensively negotiated with the opposition before presenting...
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Hezbollah's leader was quoted by two Lebanese newspapers Monday as warning that his Iranian-backed militants will strike Israel's largest city of Tel Aviv with missiles from Lebanon — if the Jewish state attacked the guerrillas' south Beirut stronghold...