Lahoud discusses with Sfeir means of uniting ranks

The Lebanese President Emil Lahoud on Sunday at Bkarki met with the Maronite Patriarch Nasrullah Sfeir and discussed with him current conditions at the local and regional levels under the instability in the general conditions in the region, resulted from the Israeli intransigence and Sharon's policy which obstructs the peace process.

Sources at the Lebanese Presidential palace said that during the meeting which was made after the Lebanese president took part in the mass held on the Easter, a debate was made for serving the Lebanese interests in uniting the Lebanese ranks and the unity of all the Lebanese.

Meantime, the Lebanese prime minister Rafiq al-Hariri discussed with the UN secretary general special envoy Steven De Mitsora conditions in South Lebanon in light of the escalated Israeli aggressions.

Following the meeting, the UN envoy said that the UN secretary general and the UN delegate to the region Terry Larsen asked him to meet with the Lebanese president and premier in order to discuss conditions in South Lebanon.

To this end the chairman of the executive bureau at the Lebanese Hizbullah party Hashem Safey Eddine said that the Lebanese resistance continues in its operation until the defeat of the Israeli forces, unconditionally from all Lebanese occupied territories.

In the rally which was held on Sunday in Bin Jbeil city on the occasion of the anniversary of the Lebanese resistance martyrs, Safey Eddine added: " the Shebaa operation ( on Saturday in which one Israeli soldier was killed and a tank was destroyed) stresses once again that as far as there is occupation, prisoners and a threat to the homeland, resistance will continue."