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Article: Lebanese Speaker Calls for Curbing Israel's
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- November 20, 1996
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Speaker of the Lebanese House of Representatives Nabih Berri
today
called for the widest possible parliamentary and diplomatic drive by
the Francophone countries across the world to curb the defiant
Israeli military and settlement policies.
Berri made this call at the opening of the second session of the
Political and Administrative Bureau of the General and Popular
Society of World Francophone Parliamentarians.
Berri accused the Israeli government of pushing the Middle East
to
the brink of war and of mobilizing its forces along the northern
front opposite Syria and Lebanon. He pointed out that Israel is
trying to go back to square one in Israeli-Arab negotiations.
He underscored that ...