Lebanese students sit-in to protest foreign meddling in Lebanon
Lebanon-Syria, Politics, 3/3/2006

Students of the Lebanese University, the fifth branch staged a sit-in on Wednesday at he Social Sciences College to protest the foreign and US intervention in the Lebanese affairs.

Spokesman of the national youth campaign to reject the US mandate, Ali Hashisho, said in a statement, the Americans are allowing themselves to flagrantly interfere in Lebanon and threaten the region with division as well play with Lebanon's security and future.

He warned against what Lebanon is exposed to of a plots that aimed at its national will, and that they wanted dismantle the national resistance weapons.

Some students fired at the end of the sit-in at a US flag.

Meantime, the Islamic Shiite Supreme Council in Lebanon welcomed today any Arab offices to boost the Syrian- Lebanese relations asserting that Syria is a "sisterly country ruled by elements of history, geography and joint interests with Lebanon."

In a statement, the council underlined adherence to the choice of resistance "in facing the repeated and constant Israeli aggression on Lebanon and in keeping Lebanons unity, sovereignty and independence as well to liberate his land and restore his captives."

For his part, Chief Shiite religious authority in Lebanon, sheikh Afif Naboulsi, underlined that keeping the Arab Lebanese identity, ties with Syria, as well protecting the resistance are all postulates that must be kept.

"Those who want to change the identity of Lebanon, instigate tension and sedition as well hostility to Syria in addition to make Lebanon a passage for conspiracy against her do not belong to the homeland and do not care about Lebanon's independence nor his sovereignty and freedom," he said.

He asserted that "Lebanon would always remain Arab and on good terms with all Arab brethren," stressing that Lebanon would never become a foothold for plots and a place for sedition.

The Lebanese follow up committee to support captives in Israeli jails, called in a memo issued today to put more international pressure on Israel as to release all Lebanese captives and missing persons.

The committee called in its memo the Lebanese foreign ministry to reconsider a Lebanese draft bill "over missing persons and captives as well martyrs corpses in Israel" urging the ministry to mass international support that makes the vote scheduled in the 62nd session of the UN Human Rights Committee that will start its activities on mid next March in Geneva a success.

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