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Beirut: Huge Gap Threatens National Dialogue

HUGE GAP THREATENS NATIONAL DIALOGUE

Naharnet
Sept 15 2008
Lebanon

An Nahar daily on Monday quoted sources as saying that huge differences
among the majority and the opposition threaten to undermine efforts to
reach an understanding at the national dialogue that will be launched
at Baabda Palace on Tuesday.

The sources doubted the 14 leaders who will attend the talks will
be able to quickly agree on the country’s defense strategy given
"the wide gap between the majority’s and the opposition’s stances
from the issue."

Also, Suleiman’s visit to Washington and the United Nations
headquarters in New York later this month will be a setback as there
will be no weekly scheduled talks.

By Sunday night, all invitations were sent by the presidential
palace to the conferees to attend the first session at 11:00 am
Tuesday after Armenians finally agreed on MP Hagop Pakradounian as
their representative.

Other than having a rectangular and not roundtable setting for the
participants of the 14 political groups, two major points distinguish
Tuesday’s dialogue from previous talks – First, the conference will
be sponsored by President Michel Suleiman and second, the dialogue
will deal directly with the controversial issue of Hizbullah’s arms.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS
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