Hariri Meets Davutoglu: No One in Lebanon Can Eliminate the Other
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Former Prime Minister Saad Hariri stressed on Wednesday the need for the whole of Lebanon to come under the control of the state and army.
He said: “No one in Lebanon can eliminate the other and we are all Lebanese and bound to work together.”
He made his statement during his trip to Turkey where he met with Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu.
The former premier added: “Some sides are demanding the establishment of an arms-free Beirut and I say that the whole of Lebanon should come under the state and army control.”
Addressing the crisis in Syria and its agreement on an Arab deal to send observers to the country, Hariri noted: “The signing of the protocol was accompanied with an escalation in killings against anti-regime protesters.”
He explained that when Syria signed the protocol, it agreed to the Arab initiative, which calls on it to halt the violence against protesters and implement reform.
These demands have not been met yet, he remarked.
For his part, Davutoglu said that the killing of anti-regime protestors in Syria in light of its signing of the Arab deal is "unacceptable".
"Even after signing the protocol, many people were killed in Syria, this is unacceptable," Anatolia news agency quoted him as saying.
He said Turkey wants the Arab League deal to be fully implemented and will go on supporting the protocol.
"There are important dimensions of this initiative such as releasing the detainees and allowing observers into the country. We want this initiative to be successful completely," Davutoglu said.
"Turkey will do whatever it can do for its success," he said.
The primary aim of the Arab League is to stop the bloodshed, Davutoglu said.
"We hope this massacre ends," he added.
Syria signed an Arab League agreement that would allow an advance team of observers to head to Damascus on Thursday to lay the ground for monitors overseeing a plan to which Syria agreed on Monday.
The team would include security, legal and administrative observers, with human rights experts expected to follow, and be headed by assistant secretary general Samir Seif al-Yazal.
The observer mission is part of an Arab peace plan endorsed by Syria on November 2, which also calls for a halt to violence, releasing detainees and the withdrawal of the military from towns and residential districts.
The United Nations estimates that more than 5,000 people have been killed in the crackdown on protestors since mid-March.
Earlier on Wednesday, Hariri discussed the Syrian crisis with Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan, his press office said.
It said Hariri arrived in the Turkish capital on Tuesday.
Their talks focused on the developments in the region and the world, mainly the crisis in Syria, and bilateral ties, it added.
Hariri reiterated on twitter on Tuesday night that the Syrian regime will collapse.
Syrian President Bashar Assad signed the Arab protocol because he found himself in the corner, Hariri tweeted in Arabic. But the former premier stressed that Assad will fall in the trap of his actions.
21 December 2011, 13:04
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what about the lebanese prob? what about the electricity,telecomunication,salaries, jobs?
or you are now just pay attention for the syarian people?
21 December 2011, 13:27
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leblover
Hariris only worry now is to bring the suunis to power in Syria so he can reunify Lebanon to its greater Syrian sunni motherland.
21 December 2011, 14:45
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Most of you M8 supports are Sunni haters and I truly don't understand why? How can you hate a whole religious sect (Women, Children, old, young etc…) are you so brain dead to support your leaders so blindly. Sheikh Saad loves Lebanon and his loyalty is to all Lebanese not like the Syrian and Iranian boot lickers. You are jealous of success and patriotism. MANY Lebanese hold dual citizenships but most still are loyal to Lebanon. M14 never ruled alone and Hariri's mistake was that he believed the M8 cheaters and back stabbers and shared power. There is no sharing next time. It is time to look to the future and not live in the past. M8 is crippling the country they fight each other even with guns in the streets and in government. What a punch of thugs and haters with no agenda. WAKE UP before it's too late. Very pathetic bunch indeed.
21 December 2011, 15:02
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So mini-he who is incapable of discussing anything with anybody for more that 2 minutes of his attention (according to his master and commander Jeffy Jeff) wants us to believe that he is a player on the regional and international scene. Yeah, sure, cheikh Tweety.
21 December 2011, 15:27
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Why is he is Ankara, he should be in Beirut acting more like Amal and Hezbala on one hand have their ministers vote for the government's pay hike bill and then support the strikes against it that's what "responsible governance look like" I am surprise not everyone has the creative stinking smelly_demon has.
21 December 2011, 16:24
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Hopefully the syrian people will soon be able to get rid of the baath tyranny...
The Lebanese people should also wake up and get rid of the M8/ M14 dictatorship.
They divided us to better control us, steal from us, and perpetuate their privileges. Aoun Geagea Hariri Nasrallah Berry Jumblat, Frangieh Gemayel... so many faces, one sick political body...
21 December 2011, 18:13
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we want hassouni as president and prime minister, we are the majority and will remain so, if you dont like it, you can leave!
22 December 2011, 01:57
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sweating Demon...no real Lebanese hate the Shiaa especially when families like El Assad, Osseirane, Hamade,... even Moussa Sadr helped build modern Lebanon.
On the contrary before the Iranian revolution Shiaa were moderators between Maronites & Sunnis and nobody is disguising their contribution to Lebanon.
What we do not like is an armed militia stronger than our state that do the interests of other states.
Unfortunately Iranian money has flooded the South and brainwashed poor people
If it was a REAL resistance its loyalty would be to Lebanon and it will resist all invasions to Lebanon including Syrian occupation.
A REAL resistance do not choose between one occupation and the others, the mujaheddin did not choose between USSR & USA they fought whomever invaded their country
22 December 2011, 03:47
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@sweat_rat, & Hassouni: You have the Jewish state in the South, and a terrorist regime in the North that have tried for 50 yrs to undermine our Country. How? Ask your grandfather what used to happen when Syria's government since 50 yrs ago needed something from Lebanon how they used to shut the borders to force their ideology or ruling on Lebanon and this is before the Palestinian problem or 1975 war. What Harriri could have been doing with Turkey is to create an economic bridge since we are at war with the Southern state and a civil war or border shutdown might occur in the North, it's called politics with your neighboring friends and I do not think Turkey is Zionist as M8 might try to label any side that is anti-syrian/iranian. Why harriri is not in Lebanon and acting like the shabiha (Amal & Hizb) it's because he's ideal to travel to all the countries to bridge the gap that the current shabiha has created. (i.e. No STL, No United Nations and etc..)kill them all zionists.
22 December 2011, 05:26
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Call it the meeting of the miscalculators.
Davutoglu to Saad: Chic Saad, how much is 2 x 3?
Saad to Davutoglu: Can I Tweet the question to my buddies?
Davutoglu to Saad: You can, but you only have 1 minute to give me an answer.
Saad to Davutoglu after 53 seconds: The answer is 18!!!
Davutoglu to Saad: 18 you son of a gun? 2 x 3 = 18?
Saad to Davutoglu: Yes, and my smart Twitter buddies all gave me this answer.
Davutoglu to Saad: No my friend. The answer is wrong. The correct answer is 12. 2 x 3 = 12. (What an idiot son of a gun!!!)
22 December 2011, 15:26
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@Dingo
Is it supposed to be funny?? What are you? A retard??
22 December 2011, 15:35
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@sweaty
Stop making a fool of yourself. Not only M14 rejected Mr Bassil's plan. At the end it went through only conditioned by some auditing. That's indeed the only example you can come up with...
You must have forgotten that your friends... (those who resign, and resign again, block the parliament, pull up barricades, burn tires, shoot civilians, block the BCD , threaten, intimidate,...) have no clue about civil opposition, and only know the way of the gun, and other thug behavior! You have a lot of nerve... and a lack of memory...
22 December 2011, 15:39
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@Hassouni
Obviously, and given the level of your intellect, should all Lebanon be like you, we would be living in the 17th century, and playing with our toes...
06 January 2012, 16:21
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Lebanon is part of the Syrian Sunni Arab motherland. The Armenians, Maronites and Iranians should go back to their own nations.
