Report: Bassil, Nader Hariri Discuss Roukoz's Fate
Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil and Nader Hariri, the adviser of the Mustaqbal Movement leader, have met away from the media spotlight to discuss the fate of Commando Regiment chief Brig. Gen. Chamel Roukoz, As Safir daily reported on Friday.
The newspaper said that Bassil, who is a Free Patriotic Movement official, and Hariri held talks on Thursday night.
As Safir quoted sources as saying that the meeting came as part of contacts held by al-Mustaqbal leader Saad Hariri's adviser Ghattas Khoury with FPM chief MP Michel Aoun.
Aoun's main objective is to receive political consensus on the appointment of his son-in-law Roukoz as army chief as part of a package for the appointment of other top security officers, said the sources.
Roukoz's tenure ends in October 2015 while the term of army commander Gen. Jean Qahwaji expires at the end of September.
Despite the reports about his insistence to have his son-in-law as army chief, Aoun denied last week that he had made such a proposal.
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