Suleiman Urges Cabinet to Handle Palestinian Bases
President Michel Suleiman on Tuesday urged the cabinet to follow up implementation of earlier decisions calling for disbanding Palestinian bases outside refugee camps.
Suleiman made the call during a cabinet meeting at the Baabda Palace which tackled the state bu8dget for fiscal 2009.
Industry Minister Ghazi Zoaiter said Suleiman urged the cabinet to follow up implementation of decisions adopted by the Conference on National dialogue in the year 2006, especially "the topic of Palestinian weapons outside refugee camps."
The term, in Lebanese political parlance, refers to military bases manned by pro-Syrian factions in the eastern Bekaa Valley and Beirut”s southern suburb of Naameh.
The Cabinet, Zoaiter said, is to convene on Jan. 30 to resume discussion of the state budget.