Gemayel Reveals Ongoing Contacts with Syria Opposition over Missing Lebanese
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Phalange Party leader Amin Gemayel said on Monday that there are ongoing contacts with a number of Syrian officials, including the head of the opposition Syrian National Council Burhan Ghalioun.
“The contacts are aimed at inquiring about the Lebanese missing in Syria,” Gemayel said in a press conference.
He revealed that the party obtained information about Boutros Khawand, who was kidnapped near his home in the Metn on September 15, 1992 while on his way to work.
However, the Syrian authorities deny that he was in their custody.
Gemayel noted that the party “respects the free people’s will.”
He tackled the final statement issued by the “International Union for the Centrist Democratic Parties Conference”, saying that high-ranking international and regional officials attended the meeting.
“We agreed on the slogan of democracy and freedom,” Gemayel said.
The Phalange Party called for an international conference under the title “The International Union for the Centrist Democratic Parties Conference,” which was held on Friday.
He considered that the presence of international and regional officials in Lebanon demonstrated their “support for Lebanon’s stability and sovereignty.”
“The Union announced its support for the establishment of democratic regimes and condemned violent practices against people,” Gemayel stated.
He said that the Union has decided to establish a regional center in Beirut.
Asked about the March 14-led opposition Cedar Revolution, Gemayel pointed out that “the person who doesn’t acknowledge its principles will not be recognized by history.”
“We refuse to take Lebanon back in time. The Lebanese community is unique and it’s in no one’s interest to reject democracy,” he stressed.
30 January 2012, 14:51
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Cookie Munster
That means all bootlickers from the ssnp will be at the bottom of the heap
30 January 2012, 16:59
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Ya cookie, Hitler, Genghis khan etc..are killers...History also remembers great musicians, thinkers, inventors, painters etc... you don't have to be a killer to be remembered. Jesus will forever be remembered for the good that he's done.
30 January 2012, 18:46
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@ Cookie monster, what should i say? this time Allouchi put you back in place, thats right, you dont have to be a killer or a strong man in order to be remmembered, but i guess thats what the great General of cowardise taught you... tell me , will HE be remembered? i guess maybe in the guiness book for the fastest runaway the world has ever seen
30 January 2012, 19:12
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How about missing people in Lebanon. I have cousins who were killed in the shouf area by lebanese, and we never knew where are the bodies and who are the real killers. But we are asking the Syrians for help. What a joke?
30 January 2012, 19:38
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good, cookie acknowledges that aoun wouldn t be remembered too! what did he do for the missing lebanese in syria? he said there were no more lebanese prisonners there and also ask their mothers to turn the page!!!
i guess in cookie s logic this file in aoun hands is upheld by a weak man...
weaker than him you won t find...
at least M14 is asking for their fate, aoun has forgotten them killing them a second time....!
