FM Says No Cabinet Session without Appointments as Berri Urges Postponement to September
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Speaker Nabih Berri on Wednesday called for postponing debate over the thorny issue of the security and military appointments to September, as Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil stressed that the Free Patriotic Movement will not attend any cabinet session that does not have the file on the top of its agenda.
“During his meeting with Minister Bassil, Speaker Berri suggested postponing the security appointments to September, as Bassil insisted on the FPM's stance regarding the issue of appointments,” Voice of Lebanon radio (93.3) reported after talks in Ain el-Tineh.
Bassil, however, underlined that “there will be no cabinet session without the file of appointments.”
“We are the ones who 'represent the president' and we're partners in the cabinet and the agendas of its sessions cannot be prepared without taking our opinion into account,” the minister emphasized.
“Let the prime minister call a session and we will attend and debate, but we have a clear demand: the file of appointments must remain on the top of the agenda,” he added.
On Tuesday, An Nahar newspaper reported that Prime Minister Tammam Salam was setting the agenda of a cabinet session that he intends to chair next week following an agreement with Berri.
The cabinet has been paralyzed since early June when Salam suspended the sessions over a dispute on the appointment of high-ranking security and military officials.
Free Patriotic Movement ministers have warned they would boycott any session whose agenda is not topped by the appointments.
The parliament has also been paralyzed over a dispute between the rival MPs on the presidential elections.
Their rivalry has left Baabda Palace vacant since the expiry of President Michel Suleiman's term in May last year.
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24 June 2015, 17:02
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Here we go again with the Aouni Christians repeating the same mistake that the Lebanese Christians made back in 1975 which started our civil war.
Maximalist unilateral demands are NEVER workable and compromise is, along with money, the mother's milk of politics.
My grandma used to tell me that the tree that does not bend with the breeze will break for sure when a stron wind is upon it.
24 June 2015, 19:27
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Islamic hegemony....
:) i picture u saying that with ur friends chanting some lobayka ya nosrollah and dnsing with a flag saying ya hussein...
Retard...
24 June 2015, 21:03
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So march 14 ultimate plan is isilamic hegemoni and charia law? Have u ever read barkeel post on which i comented?
And southern not all chia chant lobayaka ya nosrollah...
What is worse than a Retard is a Retard wanting go look smart....
24 June 2015, 17:13
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LF, this M8 coalition is wasting its time and everyone else's. No matter what delay tactics they'll hope to try, uncle Sam is the one who will one fine day make the call from his red phone and give orders. Whether these Iranian Syrian lackeys will want it or not, obedience is their only choice, and by the way, the new president will be neither Aoun, nor Geagea, and nor will he be an old dinosaur. In fact it is floated that 3 candidates are now on uncle Sam's table, one will be elected. The war in Syria will continue, so the war in Yemen, irrespective of what happens here. There's a road map, everyone has a role to play, Berri and the little double joined dwarf son in law are but little pawns in it.
24 June 2015, 19:30
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The saoudi plan... Umm donnot be afraids secular democratic and modern suprem khomayni boyscouts are there to help us build the perfect country we all always wished for...
Retard....
25 June 2015, 00:19
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We are governed by Thug Giants and intellectual midgets, what a shame.
25 June 2015, 01:55
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If Im-Bassil and his friend don't want to attend, then they can go Italy or wherever Im-Bassil likes to spend his days, away from his ministry, at the people's expense.
