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  • BEIRUT: Mekhitarian Says Kataeb-Tashnaq Understanding Unlikely

    MEKHITARIAN SAYS KATAEB-TASHNAQ UNDERSTANDING UNLIKELY

    NowLebanon
    March 23 2009

    In an interview with As-Safir daily on Monday, Tashnaq Party leader
    Hovig Mekhitarian said his last meeting with Kataeb Central Committee
    Coordinator Sami Gemayel reached no results concerning the upcoming
    parliamentary elections, adding that it was unlikely to reach an
    understanding with the Kataeb party amid the current political and
    electoral circumstances.

    Mekhitarian said Kataeb's proposal to Tashnaq did not yield any serious
    results and "with all due respect to Sami Gemayel, an understanding
    with the Kataeb party needs discussions with higher-level [party
    members]... Our doors are open to welcome him if he wants to visit us,"
    Mekhitarian said, a reference to Kataeb leader and former President
    Amin Gemayel.

    Mekhitarian also said his party was waiting for Future Movement
    leader MP Saad Hariri to return to Lebanon to inform him of Tashnaq's
    decision, noting that the party would explain its response to Hariri's
    offer, whether positive or negative, to the people.

    The Tashnaq leader said his party considered the political and
    electoral positions equally important in any discussion with
    others. "We are a party known for refusing electoral deals and its
    commitment to its loyalties and principles," he said.

    Mekhitarian reiterated that Tashnaq would ally with Free Patriotic
    Movement leader MP Michel Aoun and with MP Michel al-Murr alone,
    as long as there was no Armenian candidate on the March 14 list or
    any centrist candidate cooperating with March 14.

    Mekhitarian said his party wanted an uncontested election for its
    candidate, but if Murr took part in an opposing approach, it would mean
    "electoral annulment" with him.
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