Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Lebanon to boycott Arab Summit in Damascus


The American puppet governments in Egypt and Saudi Arabia threatened Syria if it didn't send the illegitimate Lebanese government an invitation to the Summit. So Syria did send an invitation. And what does the former accountant of Saudi investments in Lebanon, Prime Minister Fouad Siniora do? He declines the invitation and boycotts the summit! Usually when we have a problem, we talk to the other party in question and try to solve it - something we learn in grade school, right? Well thats not the way they do that in Lebanon. Sounds like they are taking lessons from George W. Bush's "your either with me or against me" foreign policy. This is especially disgusting when Lebanon is in the middle of a political crisis where there has been no President for four months. It's obvious at this point that the pro-government "March 14th" coalition is just trying to point fingers, as they would attend this summit if they had sincere intentions to solving the volatile political crisis.

"BEIRUT: After Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa urged the Lebanese to take part in an Arab summit this weekend in Damascus, the Lebanese government on Tuesday decided to boycott the summit without ruling out the possibility of sending a message that could be read at the summit. "Lebanon's absence from the summit does not imply any negative stands against Syria, but rather an occasion to assert Lebanon's democracy, sovereignty and independence," Information Minister Ghazi Aridi told reporters when reading the minutes of the Cabinet meeting."

http://dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=2&article_id=90258

What more to prove your independence and sovereignty than to send a delegation and to represent your country's specific opinions and concerns?
These acts are actually repressive to gaining the country's sovereignty and they show the true side of the March 14th pro-government coalition.

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