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Article: Lebanon Not to Attend Peace Conference on Wye Deal
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- November 19, 1998
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Lebanon on Thursday rejected a United States invitation to
attend
a multinational peace conference in support of the Wye accord singed
by the Palestinians and Israel.
"The U.S. invitation comes when there is no consensus among Arab
countries for the Wye agreement and while Lebanon's south and the
west Bekaa Valley and Syria's Golan Heights are still under Israel's
occupation," Lebanese Information Minister Bassem Al-Sabaa told
reporters after a regular cabinet session.
He said Lebanon would not attend such a meeting and not give any
support for the deal.
The U.S. administration is inviting countries concerned in the
Middle East peace process to gather in Washington for a
multinational
peace ...