Lahoud will not hand rule to nonexistent government

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25/02/2007

Al-Manar special report ` Mohamad Kazan ` Translated /

Lebanese President Emile Lahoud warned against a constitutional vacuum
in case a national unity government is not formed before next
presidential elections, stressing that he will not hand the rule to a
government he considers nonexistent.

During an interview with the Algerian television, Lahoud stressed he
will continue as president until the last day of his term. The
president added that the United States and France boycotted him and
called for his resignation because of his supportive position to the
Lebanese resistance against Israeli occupation and aggression as well
as his refusal to the settlement of Palestinian refugees in
Lebanon. Lahoud also unveiled he had received several death threats
but added that he disregarded them. He welcomed all of Lebanon’s
friends who want to help the country adding that the solution to the
ongoing crisis can only be a Lebanese-Lebanese solution. The President
accused the Israeli Mossad of standing behind the bombs which were
recently discovered in Beirut and across Lebanon, and called for not
slipping into the Israeli-led plot to harm Lebanon and the
region. Lahoud expressed support to the formation of the international
tribunal to try those responsible for the assassination of former
Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, but warned against politicizing the
court, violating the constitution by signing the court’s treaty that
should be exclusively signed by the President and disregard the gaps
in the tribunal’s internal order.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress