Miqati, Hariri Exchange Handshakes While Offering Condolences to Saudi King
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Prime Minister Najib Miqati and former Premier Saad Hariri came face to face on Tuesday during their condolences to Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz on the death of Crown Prince Sultan.
Media reports said Wednesday that Miqati and Hariri exchanged handshakes and kisses and then the Mustaqbal movement leader invited the PM to sit next to him after he realized that Miqati’s seat was far from where King Abdullah was sitting.
The relations between the two men deteriorated after Miqati accepted the proposal of the Hizbullah-led March 8 forces to lead the cabinet after they toppled Hariri’s government earlier in the year.
World leaders poured into Riyadh to offer condolences on Crown Prince Sultan’s death who was buried on Tuesday.
While his successor has yet to be named, the body of Sultan, who died on Saturday in a New York hospital, has been repatriated to Riyadh for the funeral.
26 October 2011, 10:45
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Unite for the sake of Lebanon! Mikati don't bet on the survival of the terrorist Assad regime....his days are numbered!
26 October 2011, 11:15
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it is always good to talk, WITHOUT GUNS IN THE BACKGROUND...no hezbolla any more
26 October 2011, 12:04
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Well...Hezbollah are roughing up Mikati, and Aoun is insulting him...
He has very small support with the Sunni...eventually...he'll get back to his senses.. just like joumblat did...
26 October 2011, 14:21
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Being civil to each other is an asset to Lebanon. The M8 people need to learn from it. hopefully Mikati will see the light and come back to the Lebanese and leave Syria, Hizb and M8.
26 October 2011, 15:12
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The saudis put mikati's seat on the border with Jordan
Ya haram ya mikati, jumping on every official occasion to please be acknowledged...
26 October 2011, 15:59
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It is a good and a smart move by Hariri to reconcile with Mikati and to bring the Lebanese Sunni to Mikati's support. Regardless of how he got to the office of PM, Mikati is doing a credible job and he is carrying the banner of the STL against Aoun and Nasrallah.
Mikati has earned the support of the Lebanese Sunni for carrying their issue against such adverse winds which now seek to topple his government due to his support of STL funding. If Hariri can bring the Lebanese Sunni into Mikati's camp, this is furthering the cause of justice through the STL process, which is the only process going now.
Good for Hariri. I hope that his time of sulking is over and he is back in the game.
26 October 2011, 18:29
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Miqati was and still is with the STL, he was just more flexible and diplomatic than the other Sunni leaders in Lebanon.... STL is going no where
26 October 2011, 21:40
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personnally i don t care if hariri is finished or not. i struggle for ideas not for a man.
that is the main pb in lebanon where a leader is more important to support than ideas only because he is from the same community or village or whatever!
because our politicians fight for their interests and businesses but rarely for the interests of the country...
27 October 2011, 07:21
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@peace
well said.
as I tried to explain in my post that was removed yesterday, we are for ideas not for the supposed leaders, unlike others who follow their leaders whatever they would do, even when it becomes clear they are traitors to Lebanon.
