[wvns] Hezbollah to send ex-minister to Paris
Hezbollah to send ex-minister to Paris dialogue
Fri Jul 6, 2007
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070706/wl_mideast_afp/lebanonpoliticsfrancehezbollah
BEIRUT (AFP) - Hezbollah will send a former cabinet member to
participate in all-party talks in France aimed at breaking Lebanon's
political deadlock, the Shiite opposition group said on Friday.
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The group has assigned senior official Mohammed Fneish to the
two-member team, along with foreign affairs chief Nawaf Mussawi, a
spokesman told AFP.
Fneish was energy minister in the government of Prime Minister Fuad
Siniora before resigning along with five other pro-Syrian ministers in
November.
After talks with a French envoy who delivered invitations for the
mid-July dialogue, Mussawi said on Wednesday that Hezbollah welcomes
the initiative, which showed France was "standing alongside the
Lebanese without taking sides."
The meeting will take place on July 14-16 with between 30 and 40
delegates taking part, the foreign ministry in Paris announced on
Friday, rather than July 14-17 as announced by the envoy while in Beirut.
Two members of the Western-backed Siniora government,
Telecommunication Minister Marwan Hamadeh and Youth Minister Ahmed
Fatfat, are also to take part in the meetings outside Paris.
French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner is to play the role of
moderator in a bid to ease the worst political crisis in Lebanon since
the 1990 end of a 15-year civil war.
Jewish groups in France have criticised the participation of
Hezbollah, accusing it of having carried out deadly attacks dating
back to the early 1980s when dozens of French soldiers were killed.
They also accuse the group's Al-Manar television of anti-Semitism.
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