The Lebanese eulogized Hariri in the presence of world leaders
Lebanon, Politics, 2/16/2005

The Lebanese people are eulogizing today the former Lebanese prime minister Rafic Hariri in the presence of a large number of international, regional and official figures in a people's funeral to take the streets of Beirut.

On Tuesday evening, Beirut witnessed funeral atmospheres when thousands of Lebanese people lit candles in several quarters of the capital while scores of students observed a sit in off the coast of Beirut near the place where Hariri and other 14 persons were assassinated in the same place.

Simultaneously, thousands of Lebanese in Tripoli (the largest cities of North Lebanon) and Sidon( the birth place of Hariri) took the streets in demonstrations deploring the assassination and chanted slogans supporting Hariri's son and raised slogans demanding the resignation of the government and the departure of the Syrian forces from Lebanon.

Meantime, to take part in Hariri's funeral who was assassinated on Monday, delegations arrived to offer condolences. The secretary general of the Arab league Amr Moussa and the Palestinian foreign minister Nabil Shaath arrived in Beirut. Also arrived were al-Akhdar al-Ibraheimi the representative of the UN secretary general and the French President Jacque Chirac is expected to take part in the funeral who is connected to special relations with Hariri. Also taking part in the funeral are the US under secretary of state William Burns, the higher representative for the foreign and security policy in the European Union Javier Solana and the British foreign office secretary Jack Straw as well as the Saudi foreign minister prince Saud al-Faisal, the Moroccan prime minister Idris Hitto and former prime minister of Malaysia Mahateir Muhammad.

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