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CAIRO - Lebanon’s pro-Syrian parliament speaker Nabih Berri on Saturday asked Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak for Arab help in defusing the simmering crisis between Beirut and its former powerbroker Syria. “The aim of my visit to Cairo is to seek an Arab mediation that would ensure the implementation of decisions” reached during Lebanon’s protracted political roundtable talks, Berri told reporters after meeting Mubarak.
| And to save his job, and his neck ... |
Berri said he had received “a very positive response” from Mubarak and informed the Egyptian president of the latest developments in Lebanon’s rocky political consultations.
Berri later met Arab League Secretary General Amr Mussa for discussions that focused on tensions with Syria. “The Arab League is fully ready to exert every possible effort in the service of this file,” Mussa told reporters after the meeting. “What’s important to us is that relations between Syria and Lebanon should be exemplary. There are foundations for relations to be as excellent as they were over the past decades,” the Arab League chief said.
| During the time in which Lebanon was a colony. |
“Arab efforts will continue and resume forcefully at the right time,” he promised. He also said that he was prepared to travel to Syria and Lebanon “at the right time to discuss these matters.” |