Suleiman: Baabda Declaration More Significant Politically than Policy Statement
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President Michel Suleiman noted that the Baabda Declaration has become a national charter after it was unanimously adopted at the national dialogue in June 2012, reported An Nahar daily on Thursday.
He told his visitors on Wednesday: “The Declaration is more significant politically than the new government policy statement.”
The policy statement changes with each new government, but the Declaration remains constant, he explained.
Those who agreed to the Declaration should not shy away from their commitment to it, stressed Suleiman.
His visitors reiterated his stance that he is keen for a new policy statement to be approved before the March 5 meeting of the International Support Group for Lebanon set to be held in Paris.
The president will be accompanied on his trip by Defense Minister Samir Moqbel, Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil, and Social Affairs Minister Rashid Derbas.
The ministerial committee tasked with devising a new policy statement has so far failed to come up with statement given the differences between the rival March 8 and 14 camps over the inclusion of the Baabda Declaration.
Health Minister Wael Abou Faour announced on Wednesday that the ministerial panel has reached a “satisfactory formula” regarding mentioning the Baabda Declaration in the draft.
"We have now moved on to discuss other topics,” he added after the committee's sixth meeting that was held on Wednesday.
The committee is scheduled to hold its seventh meeting on Friday afternoon.
27 February 2014, 10:09
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Yeah , keep your worthless opinions to yourself you idiot;and emigrate to Iran you traitor.
27 February 2014, 11:54
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Oh my dear Karim come on now my brother, such a statement certainly does not elevate the quality of your argument. Suleiman is recieving such remarks form the Hezbollah led M8 coalition because this man does not bow down to their pressures. Suleiman remains consistent in his job ansd in his principles, he keeps doing what he feels is best for the nation. He does not curtsy to anyone, not to Michel Aoun who is now red with fury, nor to Sayed Hassan, not to Bachar Al Assad, nor to the Saudi monarchy, nor to the Qatari monarchy, to no one. As a president, please mark my sentence again, or when he was CIC of the LAF, he did what he felt was best for this nation. If you want to tell Suleiman to go back to the KSA, then I wonder what will happen to the rest, and sorry to put it this way, but like Sayed Hassan, Aoun, and all the others of both Ms, will they too not go? Lebanon will empty of its political leaders. Ma heyk akhi?
27 February 2014, 11:05
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Naharnet:
I sincerely do not understand how you tolerate the comments of the so called karim against our president and Lebanon.
he is insulting the whole country in his comments!
please remove him totally from this site.
27 February 2014, 11:59
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Geha, with all due respects to you, I disagree with your call to Naharnet. Karim is free to his bviews, just as we all are. Maybe we do not like his views, but all the same if naharnet was to bar such people from its forum, what would the forum's value be? Can you imagine everyone stereotyping each other's positions? I have disagreed with Karim several times here, but I am honest when I say that I have never seen him insult or derogate anyone, despite at times I've seen some seriously heavy language used on him. Sorry, I am just being honest.
27 February 2014, 17:58
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regretfully, you do not wish to see the aggressivity in all of this person's comments.
you do not see that his attacks on our president are ....
anyway, I stated my opinion about him, and I am confident it is shared by others.
27 February 2014, 17:14
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Bro Roar, Suleiman will leave Baabda, and on time that's for sure, but it won't change the fact, Michel Aoun will not live to see that seat. The man to take Suleiman's place will equally continue to receive the wrath of Aoun and equally, his partisans will follow suite. It's an old vinyl disk, used, over used and abused, to the point where only clicks and hisses can be heard.
