US ambassador meets with Franjieh in Bnashii
U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Dorothy Shea held talks Thursday in the northern town of Bnashii with Marada Movement chief Suleiman Franjieh.
According to Franjieh’s press office, the talks tackled “the upcoming constitutional junctures and a number of important issues at the political, economic, financial and social levels.”
According to media reports, Shea had on Wednesday relayed Israeli reassurance messages to Lebanese officials regarding the arrival of a gas production rig in the Karish offshore field.
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Shea stressed the need to keep Article 24's set-aside of half of the Lebanese Parliament to Christians, saying, "We and Israel agree that Christianity is the only thing that can save the Middle West."
The Embassy later clarified her remarks.
Shea is slated to meet Hizbullah chief Hassan Nasrallah at a burning-in-effigy celebration at the Embassy one fine day, when she will affix a list of demands to the effigy. Embassy staff caution that all modern fire-prevention measures will be respected and that the list of demands will be affixed before the conflagration commences.
