Cabinet to Meet after Talks with Arab Delegation
Prime Minister Fouad Saniora”s government will convene on Wednesday after talks with an Arab delegation in Beirut on ways to end the Lebanon crisis which has spilled onto the streets, leaving at least 62 people killed and 200 wounded.
Saniora”s office late Tuesday issued a statement announcing that the cabinet will meet on Wednesday at the Grand Serail.
The delegation, headed by Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem al-Thani, was to assemble in Doha before flying in to Beirut on Wednesday.
It will also include the foreign ministers of Algeria, Djibouti, Jordan, Morocco, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen.
Neither Egypt nor Syria, which back the Lebanese government and opposition respectively, will take part in the mission, a League official said.
The delegation is expected to hold talks with Saniora, Speaker Nabih Berri, army chief Gen. Michel Suleiman, Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun, Druze leader Walid Jumblat and parliamentary majority leader Saad Hariri.
An official from the Arab League said Monday the League had insisted that the flight land at Beirut”s airport, blocked by protesters since Wednesday.