Aoun Meets Hariri over Dinner at Center House
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Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun held talks Wednesday evening with al-Mustaqbal movement chief ex-PM Saad Hariri at the Center House in downtown Beirut, in the first public meeting between the two leaders since at least five years.
Future TV said Aoun was accompanied by his son-in-law, Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil, and that talks were expected to continue over a dinner banquet.
For its part, Hariri's press office said the talks were also attended by the ex-PM's adviser former MP Ghattas Khoury.
The discussions tackled “the general political situations in the country and the latest regional developments,” Hariri's office said.
Hariri then threw a dinner banquet in Aoun's honor, the office added.
The meeting comes after Bassil attended on Saturday a rally commemorating the 10th anniversary of the assassination of Hariri's father, former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
Al-Akhbar newspaper reported Wednesday that Bassil represented the FPM after al-Mustaqbal invited the movement as a positive step towards rapprochement between two sides.
Al-Mustaqbal is already engaged in talks with the FPM's top ally Hizbullah since December.
The representatives of the two parties are discussing ways to limit sectarian tension and possible ways to resolve the presidential crisis.
Bassil and ex-MP Khoury have held a series of contacts to set the stage for the meeting, the daily said.
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18 February 2015, 08:16
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Hopefully it will be the last meeting between the two before Aoun finally kicks the bucket.
18 February 2015, 08:23
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Loooooooool whatever happened to the Aoun-Geagea meeting? Such a joke...
18 February 2015, 08:24
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The report came after Aoun's son-in-law Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil attended on Saturday a rally commemorating the 10th anniversary of the assassination of Hariri's father, former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
- What was that clown doing there? Lol
18 February 2015, 11:36
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Mr. Hariri, I know this is an old picture, but for the love of folks and nation, if you're going to meet with the old man Aoun,...you know....the squatter and defector, if for any reason you need to shake hands with him, please make sure you count your fingers thereafter. If you have to exchange kisses, then make sure you disinfect yourself from head to toe then immediately after that, get yourself an anti-tetanus shot. The guy simply put is infected with a plethora of highly infectious diseases, most of them whose effects obliterate the victim's capability of thinking sanely, hence the FPM.
18 February 2015, 15:28
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That is what anyone shaking the hand of a childmurder & church bomber called Geagea should do.
19 February 2015, 14:57
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Mystic, this repetition of a rendition known for its hypocrisy and double standards does not pass the mark anymore. No sooner than the name Geagea appears would people like you home on the same old song. OK ya akhi, let us say that Geagea is like what you people claim, OK, fine, meshi, but you as a decent and honest man, would you accept to dish out unfair views? Is Geagea alone in committing such crimes? What about people like Michel Aoun, Nabih Berri, Walid Jumblat, Sami Al Khatib, Ahmad Al Khatib, even Sayed Hassan, are they not by any chance as criminally implicative as the Geagea you love so much to criminalize? Just know it, that it is not OK at all to keep that same song, either you turn your coin to that other side, or people like you will forever be taken with a pinch of salt. My take.
18 February 2015, 11:37
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Caporal is executing the plans of Ebola in total satisfaction to them as they are destroying the institutions and creating the chaos.
Caporal cares only about his personal interests and his in-laws. Remember caporal said: "if they don't elect me, I will destroy everything and they will be forced to elect me".
Maudit soit cet homme.
18 February 2015, 11:39
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If Caporal declares clearly that "Ebola has confiscated the state decision. That Ebola must surrender its weapons. That he is not for Mutelateh. That the Butcher is an assassin. That the best course for Lebanon is Neutrality". Then he will be my candidate.
But he will not, because he is a traitor to the Christians.
18 February 2015, 11:47
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Humble, that's why I stated it in a figure of speech approach, that old man Aoun is badly infected. He is incurable and to the best of my feelings, the best place for him now is Deyr El Salib, however the only worry is this: that once admitted, this institution will empty of its patients, no one can cohabit with such a lunatic, especially with other infections.
18 February 2015, 11:55
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Very true statement. See what general AbuJamra says about his madness: "we needed madness in 1990, but now we need statesmanship".
18 February 2015, 11:59
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Ebola has destroyed the whole country and impoverished its economy dramatically.
18 February 2015, 13:59
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God bless the General of Generals.....even his visit to KSA, he was seated front & center....yet the M14 monthly paid leaders were asked to sit right down if they could find a spare chair somewhere.
18 February 2015, 14:52
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I wasn't here yester & I don't bother reading yesterdays posts for the reasons you outlined....they become distorted in a very manipulated way.
But in saying that FT, it serves us very well...many people are noticing whats going on...Just like foxnews...only foxnews supporters believe a word they say now...they have lost all credibility all over the world.
only so far you can manipulate things before it blows in your face,.
18 February 2015, 15:23
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Gen. Aoun is the hope for all Lebanese seeking to support their real culture & land, not selling it off to Israel and USA like Michel Sulaiman, Gemayel & Geagea tried to do.
18 February 2015, 21:17
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what magic one way ticket was that, comes with multiple round trips
18 February 2015, 21:43
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If you had a clue about, what you are typing then you would know Michel Sulaiman wasen't even President during the Nahr al bared operation, Francois and he were under orders from Emile Lahoud. Nothing honorable about Sulaiman, yes the Resistance accepted him first, because he seemed promising, later to realize he were a pro m14 supporter all along, that you and Phoenix love him, is enough of a reason for me to be against him, since all our views are opposite the other.
19 February 2015, 06:22
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Black,
Francois al-Hajj was a reference to an argument between Mystic and I the day before.
http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/167724-nasrallah-calls-on-hariri-to-go-together-to-syria-says-dialogue-to-continue
Look for the comments if you want. Then you'll understand why I brought him up in this article...
18 February 2015, 22:14
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Here is on the picture our next President !!! gess who ? (-:
18 February 2015, 22:44
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people like you Mystic spread hate and division put some peace in your heart and do not be like your general it is not good for you
19 February 2015, 02:48
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Solution is for Lebanon and Lebanese, Aoun president and Hariri prime minister.
19 February 2015, 12:58
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For all of you on this post who seem to have a short term memory. Is what the Phalange did in Sabra and Chatika any different than what these thugs ISIS are doing today? I am sure you will home it on Israel or use the coverup of the civil war. Shame on us blaming everyone in the world instead of looking at the atrocities committed and the generation we have today-YOU. Not one single mature discussion posted but hate and sectarian minds posting. Is that how we expect to save our country? Get your heads from under the sand and help us from this ongoing hatred and houthi this and takfiri that. Amazing how these have become buzz words none of u including myself ever used or knew off.
