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President Moubarak receives Geagea to discuss the Lebanese file
iloubnan.info - October 14, 2008, 17h33
 


Cairo : Samir Geagea one of the parliamentary majority leaders in Lebanon declared that he discussed with the Egyptian president Housni Moubarak the Syrian military deployment on the Lebanese northern borders and how to dissolve the Shebaa Farms case on Tuesday in Cairo.

The Lebanese Forces leader said that he proposed on the president Moubarak "the situation in northern Lebanon especially the Syrian army deployment on along 40 kilometers of the Lebanese borders".

In his statement Geagea described the army dispersion to be "not clear, because if it is clear it would have targeted controlling only the Syrian borders and on larger scale".

On the other hand the Lebanese army in September noted the deployment of more than 12 thousand Syrian soldiers of the Special Forces between the Syrian borders facing northern Lebanon. Also members of the parliamentary majority opposing the Syrian regime judged the matter as pretence to get their army back to Lebanon.

However the Lebanese President Sleiman declared last week after his contact with the Syrian president Bachar El Assad that the Syrian army's actions targets "fighting terrorism".

On the other hand Geagea stated that he proposed during the meeting "two ways to solve Shebaa Farms' problem the first concerns to rely on the Egyptian international relations, especially with the United States, in order to pressure on Israel to withdraw from Shebaa Farms, and the second is to convince the fellow Syrians to sign common treaty with the Lebanese government to confirm that the farms are a part of Lebanon".

He also cleared that in this situation "the memorandum will be given to UN so the Farms would be under the provisions of the Security Council number 425 and therefore Israel would be forced to withdraw from the farms to execute the order", describing this solution to be, "the fastest one to free the last piece of the Lebanese lands".
 
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