Harb Meets Sfeir, Challenges Critics of Property Draft-Law to Have a Better Say

Labor Minister Butros Harb on Tuesday rejected accusations that a draft-law that prevents sale of property between Muslims and Christians for a period of 15 years was "sectarian."

In remarks to Future News, Harb said: There are suspicious sales of Christian lands as if there is a tendency to uproot Christians from their areas."

Let those who have better ideas present them "or else let them have the courage to go ahead with my proposal," he said.

Also Tuesday, Harb informed Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Sfeir about his newly proposed draft-law during a meeting in Bkirki.

Harb told reporters that his aim behind proposing the draft-law is "consolidation of national unity and coexistence."

"I rang the alarm bell because there is a danger on coexistence and the Christian presence in Lebanon," he said.