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Nasrallah denies torpedoing Aoun's bid for keys to Baabda |
2006-04-25 |
Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah denied Monday that Hizbullah had ever put forth a name for Lebanon's presidency, dismissing speculation that his party had "rejected" Michel Aoun as a candidate. "I urge the March 14 Forces to properly put forth Aoun's name on the national dialogue table as a candidate, and only then they will get a proper answer from me," Nasrallah declared during a ceremony commemorating the 28th anniversary of Samir Kantar's abduction by Israel. "If I said 'yes' to Aoun outside the dialogue, he would become part of a media circus and be burned on the international scene as a candidate sponsored by 'a terrorist group,' and if I said 'no' to Aoun, they would use it as a fire to ignite problems between the Free Patriotic Movement and Hizbullah-Amal's paper of understanding," he argued. Nasrallah said Hizbullah would not be putting forth names as candidates, "and will listen and either disagree or agree with the names put forth." |
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