Arabic News Weekly Edition for Lebanon, 12/20/1999
Weekly Edition, Lebanon - Week of December 20, 1999
- Two days of quiet in south Lebanon, UN Lebanon-Israel-UN, Military, 12/24/1999
- Lahd and his senior aides to find houses in Paris Lebanon, Politics, 12/24/1999
- Lebanese parliament approves election law
Quickly, as expected, without amendments worthy to be mentioned and in two short sessions held in one day, in an intensive parliamentary presence and the absence of warm welcome, the general commission of the Lebanese Parliament on Wednesday approved the new election law with a majority of 81 and the opposition of 17 parliament members, while four parliamentarians abstained from voting. Lebanon, Politics, 12/23/1999 - Ghali and Murr reviewed Lebanon's arrangements for Francophony summit Lebanon, Politics, 12/23/1999
- Lebanon to restore seven villages annexed by the French mandate to Palestine
Lebanese Prime Minister Salim al-Hoss has asserted Lebanon's determination to restore seven Lebanese villages which were annexed by the French mandate to Palestine upon demarcating the southern borders of Lebanon in agreement between the French and the British. Lebanon, Politics, 12/23/1999 - Bodies of killed Lebanese resistance fighters withdrawn from the south
Lebanese security sources said on Wednesday that the occupation forces and their agents closed the main roads to Arnoun town in the occupied part of south Lebanon after it opened a very narrow road that citizens can go through and prevented them from taking their personal belongings. Lebanon-Israel, Military, 12/23/1999 - Lebanese president, premier confer with Ghali on Francophonic conference
Lebanese President Emile Lahoud on Tuesday received in Beirut at the Baabda presidential palace the secretary general of the Organization of Francophonic States, Butrous Butrous Ghali. Lebanon, Politics, 12/22/1999 - Israeli army presents Barak plan for withdrawal from Lebanon Lebanon-Israel, Politics, 12/22/1999
- Lebanese resistance retaliates for Israeli attacks
Israeli artillery on Monday late night bombarded the eastern hills of Kafer Rumman and Kafer Tabnit towns, Habboush, the al-Zahrani river area and the valleys surrounding the occupation positions in al-Sweida, al-Tahra and al-Debshe. Lebanon-Israel, Military, 12/22/1999 - Lebanese president confers with al-Sharaa
Lebanese President Emile Lahoud ment on Monday in Beirut's Baabda palace with Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk al-Sharaa. Lebanon-Syria, Politics, 12/21/1999 - Al-Hoss: we demand our rights to lands and the waters
Lebanese Prime Minister Salim al-Hoss has asserted that Lebanon will be persistent in to demanding its rights to the waters of the al-Qazzani and al-Hasbani rivers and restoring several villages and plantations confiscated by Israel and annexed by it. Lebanon, Politics, 12/21/1999 - Lebanese - Syrian coordination in celebrating the millennium Lebanon-Syria, Economics, 12/21/1999
- Three SLA members ask for asylum in Israel
Three members of the Israeli-allied South Lebanon Army (SLA) militias on Sunday appealed to the supreme court in Israel to get the right of political asylum for them and members of their families in Israel. Lebanon-Israel, Politics, 12/21/1999 - Arab fury due to Israeli shelling of Lebanese school
Furious Arab reactions escalated yesterday toward the Israeli shelling of a school in Arab Salim village in occupied south Lebanon. Regional-Lebanon, Politics, 12/20/1999 - Israel to contain SLA
Israel Radio said on Sunday that the Israeli general security system has studied all aspects connected to containing all members of the South Lebanese Army (SLA) militia in or outside Israel after the Israeli army's withdrawal from south Lebanon Lebanon-Israel, Politics, 12/20/1999 - Hizbullah and the Washington negotiations
The chairman of the political council of the Lebanese Hizbullah Party, Muhammad Raad, said that if an agreement is signed and the negotiators in Washington reach a result, the Lebanese resistance will move the risks of the Zionist project from "the battlefields to the economic and political hegemony in the region." Lebanon, Politics, 12/20/1999 - After declaring being acquitted: A tour by a Lebanese artists whom was accused of abusing Islam Lebanon-Regional, Politics, 12/20/1999