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Article: Lebanese Speaker Stresses Resistance Against
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- October 22, 1996
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Nabih Berri, who was re-elected the house speaker in the opening
session of Lebanon's newly-elected 17th Chamber of Deputies today,
stressed a continuity of resistance against the Israeli occupation
in
south Lebanon.
Berri stressed that it was Lebanon's choice to continue the
resistance, to deepen the national unity, to strengthen the people's
confidence in the state and to consolidate the Syrian-Lebanese
relations of "common fate."
One hundred and twenty-one members of the 128-seat parliament
voted in favor of Berri, who had been the speaker of the last
parliament of 1992.
In his speech to the first general session of the new parliament,
Berri also underlined his country's adherence to U.N. ...