Report: Berri Seeking to Launch Consultations among Rival Leaders

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Speaker Nabih Berri has been holding contacts with Lebanese political parties to revive the all-party talks that he had launched in 2006, al-Akhbar newspaper reported on Thursday.

Berri has been holding consultations to bring the rival politicians on the dialogue table either in Ain el-Tineh or in parliament, the daily said.

The speaker first chaired the dialogue in the spring of 2006. But the talks were interrupted by the summer war between Israel and Hizbullah.

The dialogue resumed in the fall of that year.

It was later chaired by former President Michel Suleiman, who in May last year oversaw a largely-boycotted national dialogue session at Baabda Palace before the end of his term.

The session called for continued talks on the country's defense strategy and stressed the importance of the implementation of the Taef accord.

The boycott came as a result of deteriorating ties between Suleiman and Hizbullah after the former president urged the party to avoid inflexible equations that hindered the birth of the government’s policy statement.

Suleiman has been hailed for leaving a mark in history after overseeing the agreement between the March 8 and 14 camps on the Baabda Declaration, which stressed Lebanon's dissociation policy from the Syrian war.

Despite its approval, Hizbullah has sent its fighters to Syria to help the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad against rebels seeking to topple him.

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Comments 7
Thumb ex-fpm 27 August 2015, 09:33

09:27باسيل يتصل بسلام ويبلغه قرار "التغيير والاصلاح" و"حزب الله" مقاطعة جلسة مجلس الوزراء.

Missing humble 27 August 2015, 09:50

Ebola and FPM are destroying the counry.

Missing humble 27 August 2015, 09:51

Especially the Caporal. History will remember him as the greatest nihilator and traitor to the Christians.

Thumb -phoenix1 27 August 2015, 14:17

Berri and the other old guard are still behaving as if they representing anything in this country, when in fact people are only some meters away from throwing them out completely.

Missing cedars 27 August 2015, 14:49

Really? It is about freaking time you call on emergency daily meetings to solve the country mess. You waiting on the military to solve the political problem

Missing VINCENT 28 August 2015, 03:00

I see no other means to save the Country other than another righteous rebellion by the people. If no respectable person should be forced to put up with "bull crap", isn't that what's been served? How disgusting. Lebanon has sunk to a 11th World Country status.

Missing helicopter 28 August 2015, 04:06

Maybe since his thugs infiltrating the "you stink" demonstrations were exposed. He now wants to seek a more inclusive strategy to derail the rise of this movement to could result in their ouster. He has one and only one goal, how to milk the resources of Lebanon for as much as possible and for as long as possible.