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Hezbollah, Lebanon's anti-Syrian general Aoun reach accord (Oxymoron-Emphasis added )
Monday February 6, 2006
BEIRUT (AFP) - Lebanese General Michel Aoun, a prominent anti-Syrian Christian figure, and the
head of the pro-Syrian Shiite movement Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, said they had reached
agreement on several thorny issues.
"The fate of Hezbollah's arms should be examined within the framework of a national dialogue and a
round table," Sheikh Nasrallah said at a joint press conference after the reading of a "document of
understanding" between the two men.
Aoun had previously been a firm advocate of the disarmament of Hezbollah's militia in line with the US-
and French-sponsored UN Security Council resolution 1559 which was adopted in 2004.
Nasrallah, whose movement is part of the government, and Aoun who is in the opposition ranks held
their first ever meeting, under tight security, at the offices of a church in Shyah, a district on the southern
outskirts of Beirut.
Under their agreement, the issue of Hezbollah disarmament depends on "the liberation of the Shebaa
Farms, the release of Lebanese held in Israeli prisons and the defense of Lebanon from Israeli threats".
Hezbollah, whose fighters are widely credited for Israel's pullout from south Lebanon in 2000 after two
decades of occupation, carries out attacks on Israeli army posts in the disputed Shebaa Farms on the
two states' border.
The Aoun-Nasrallah document calls for the Beirut government to take "legal measures" to back
Lebanon's claim to the territory.
The small mountainous Shebaa Farms territory lies at the convergence of the Lebanese-Syrian-Israeli
borders. Israel captured the area from Syria in the 1967 Middle East war, and it is now claimed by
Lebanon with Damascus's consent.
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SIMPLE THOUGHTS: The enemy of my enemy is my friend, and vice versa.
Monday February 6, 2006
BEIRUT (AFP) - Lebanese General Michel Aoun, a prominent anti-Syrian Christian figure, and the
head of the pro-Syrian Shiite movement Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, said they had reached
agreement on several thorny issues.
"The fate of Hezbollah's arms should be examined within the framework of a national dialogue and a
round table," Sheikh Nasrallah said at a joint press conference after the reading of a "document of
understanding" between the two men.
Aoun had previously been a firm advocate of the disarmament of Hezbollah's militia in line with the US-
and French-sponsored UN Security Council resolution 1559 which was adopted in 2004.
Nasrallah, whose movement is part of the government, and Aoun who is in the opposition ranks held
their first ever meeting, under tight security, at the offices of a church in Shyah, a district on the southern
outskirts of Beirut.
Under their agreement, the issue of Hezbollah disarmament depends on "the liberation of the Shebaa
Farms, the release of Lebanese held in Israeli prisons and the defense of Lebanon from Israeli threats".
Hezbollah, whose fighters are widely credited for Israel's pullout from south Lebanon in 2000 after two
decades of occupation, carries out attacks on Israeli army posts in the disputed Shebaa Farms on the
two states' border.
The Aoun-Nasrallah document calls for the Beirut government to take "legal measures" to back
Lebanon's claim to the territory.
The small mountainous Shebaa Farms territory lies at the convergence of the Lebanese-Syrian-Israeli
borders. Israel captured the area from Syria in the 1967 Middle East war, and it is now claimed by
Lebanon with Damascus's consent.
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SIMPLE THOUGHTS: The enemy of my enemy is my friend, and vice versa.
