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France to host extraordinary Middle East summit, believes amending Taif agreement is necessary
FrenPresident Nicolas Sarkozy’s policy is focused on achieving an extraordinary Middle East summit to be held in Paris mid-next month or early December, with the participation of Russia, the United States and some Arab Gulf States. Al-Mustaqbal newspaper correspondent Asaad Haidar said France believes Lebanon’s participation in such a summit is essential “since peace has to [...]
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Tags: agreement, amend, Middle East summit, Taef Accord, Taif
If you’ve flipped through your news channels, you must have crossed the news on “charges of fraud” against Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs Avigdor Lieberman.
The following is a article by the New York Times of a conversation between French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel.
Netanyahu defended his ultranationalist foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, on Tuesday after [...]
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Tags: fraud, Lieberman, Netanyahu, New York Times, Sarkozy
According to statistics released by the Lebanese Customs, France became the first provider of Lebanon for the first four months of 2009.
Lebanese imports from France reached 524 million at end April 2009, placing France in the first position, ahead of the United States and China, respectively ranked first and second rows last year. In 2008, [...]
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Tags: fournisseur, investisseur, provider
Le livre ”Beyrouth in Sight – Paris”, guide de la communauté libanaise à Paris, vient de sortir chez Tamyras. Cet ouvrage signé Laila Zahed offre une multitude de conseils pratiques à tous ceux qui souhaitent retrouver un peu du Liban dans la capitale française. Sa parution est aussi l’occasion de se poser des questions sur l’intégration des Libanais [...]
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Tags: Beyrouth in Sight - Paris, La diaspora libanaise, Laila Zahed, Tamyras
Absent du Salon du livre de Paris 2008 (cette édition, avec Israël comme invité d’honneur, avait été boycottée par plusieurs pays arabes), le Liban participe cette année à ce grand rendez-vous littéraire, organisé du 13 au 18 mars dans la capitale.
Dans le cadre de cette édition 2009 (qui met en vedette la littérature mexicaine), plusieurs auteurs [...]
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Tags: Liban, Salon du livre de Paris
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has asked French envoy Philippe Marini to follow-up on a number of developments in the Middle East, especially those involving Lebanese-Syrian relations.
After meeting with Prime Minister Fouad Siniora on Tuesday, Martini said, “as French people we are very committed to national unity in Lebanon, diversity and the preparations to the upcoming parliamentary elections.”
“We [...]
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Tags: Lebanese French Relations, Lebanese Syrian Relations, Philippe Marini
