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HOT NEWS
for 16/5/2000
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The Remembrance
of the Palestinian Disaster is a common title for Beirut
issued newspapers and a significant subject in the morning
broadcasting actualities. Aggressive confrontations
outburst in the Occupied territories between the
Palestinians and Israelis. Clashes intervened between the
Palestinian Police and the Occupying Army, the result of
which was five martyrs and about 500 injured. The
political consequences were the cut off of the
negotiations.
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The newspapers
dealt with the issue of the Israeli withdrawal at
different angles, the most significant was the postponing
of the International Security Council's session from
Thursday to next week, and maybe to Monday. Prime
Minister, Salim Hoss, made consultations with the Great
Countries' Ambassadors, where the American Ambassador said
that the 'Frontiers Determining' issue refers to the
United Nations. However, the French Ambassador, Philip Le
Courtiers, confirmed that the Lebanese proof towards the
ownership of Shebaa Farms is firm, unlike the British
State Minister of Foreign Affairs, Peter Hynne who called
Lebanon and the others not to defy the Security Council.
He added that the withdrawal should be comprehensive and
full, and 'We are not willing to see anybody trying to
defy the UN in its determining the border line'.
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An-Nahar
newspaper forwarded an information through its
correspondent in Paris related by a Western knowledgeable
resource, that New York consultations depend on a Syrian
written confession that proves that Shebaa Farms are
Lebanese. At the same time, As-Safir newspaper related
news that express the existence of two documents that
prove the Lebanese ownership of Shebaa Farms.
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In the midst of
all, Future newspaper referred the postpone of the
Security Council's session to the reason of the delay in
accomplishing the report that UN Delegate, Terry Rod
Larsen, had to submit to the UN. This newspaper spoke of
the Fidgi Army's desire to withdraw from the UNIFIL in
Lebanon.
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In the electoral
concern, communications are made by the Syrian National
Social Party regarding his Beirut Maronite candidate,
Ghassan Mattar, after the spread of knowledgeable news
talking about 'cooperation between President Hariri and
the Chief of the Doctors' Syndicate, Ghattas Khoury'.
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In Saida, a race
movement for the two Members of the Parliament, Bahia
Hariri and Mustapha Saad, to gain the amity of Amal
Movement and Hizbollah concerning the Agreement List.
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