Arabic News Weekly Edition for Lebanon, 8/6/2001
Weekly Edition, Lebanon - Week of August 6, 2001
- Israeli warplanes violate the Lebanese airspace Lebanon-Israel, Politics, 8/10/2001
- Al-Assad confers with Lebanese minister, accepts credentials of five ambassadors
The President expressed readiness to provide all possible support from Syria to enabling them develop relations between Syria and their states. Syria-Lebanon, Politics, 8/9/2001 - Taha Yassin is expected to visit Beirut
Lebanese diplomatic sources unveiled that the Iraqi vice President Taha yassin Ramadan will visit Lebanon after ending preparations between Lebanon and Iraq to establish the free trade zone between the two states. Lebanon-Iraq, Politics, 8/9/2001 - Nasrullah re-elected as chairman for the Hizbullah party
The Shoura board in the Hizbullah party on Tuesday, unanimously elected Hassan Nasrullah as the secretary general for the party for a new phase. Lebanon, Politics, 8/8/2001 - Lahoud: Partial solutions do not make peace
The Lebanese President Emile Lahoud has stressed that "the aggressive policy conducted by the Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon have brought the region to such a drastic condition and foiled all attempts made to achieve a just and comprehensive peace." Lebanon-Japan, Politics, 8/6/2001 - Israel tranports remains of 300 Lebanese into a new cemetry inside Palestine
In the course of the Israeli fears that members of the Lebanese national resistance will be able to restore back the remains of 300 Lebanese resistance men who were killed in South Lebanon, the Israeli army started to transport the bodies of those " martyrs" into a new cemetery inside Israel. Lebanon-Israel, Politics, 8/6/2001