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    Lahoud will not hand rule to nonexistent government

    http://www.manartv.com.lb/NewsSite/NewsDetails.as px?id=12217&language=en
    25/02/2007


    Al-Manar special report ` Mohamad Kazan ` Translated /

    Lebanese President Emile Lahoud warned against a constitutional vacuum
    in case a national unity government is not formed before next
    presidential elections, stressing that he will not hand the rule to a
    government he considers nonexistent.

    During an interview with the Algerian television, Lahoud stressed he
    will continue as president until the last day of his term. The
    president added that the United States and France boycotted him and
    called for his resignation because of his supportive position to the
    Lebanese resistance against Israeli occupation and aggression as well
    as his refusal to the settlement of Palestinian refugees in
    Lebanon. Lahoud also unveiled he had received several death threats
    but added that he disregarded them. He welcomed all of Lebanon's
    friends who want to help the country adding that the solution to the
    ongoing crisis can only be a Lebanese-Lebanese solution. The President
    accused the Israeli Mossad of standing behind the bombs which were
    recently discovered in Beirut and across Lebanon, and called for not
    slipping into the Israeli-led plot to harm Lebanon and the
    region. Lahoud expressed support to the formation of the international
    tribunal to try those responsible for the assassination of former
    Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, but warned against politicizing the
    court, violating the constitution by signing the court's treaty that
    should be exclusively signed by the President and disregard the gaps
    in the tribunal's internal order.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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