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khazen.org Thanks Lebanese President Michel Sleiman for unique and outstanding Leadership. Presient Sleiman keept Lebanon Strong and Safe under his mandate while the region around Lebanon is boiling.

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(Reuters) - Outgoing Lebanese President Michel Suleiman said on Saturday that dialogue was the only way to overcome deep divisions in the country, which is struggling to cope with political and security spillover from Syria's civil war.

Suleiman made his remarks during his farewell speech hours before his six-year term ends and two days after parliament failed for the fifth time to choose a successor. The impasse highlights the stark political divisions in the country.

With his departure, Lebanon enters a presidential vacancy with no clear sign when it will end.

 

 

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BEIRUT: Progressive Socialist Party leader Walid Jumblatt said Saturday that he would miss the political approach of outgoing President Michel Sleiman.

“We will miss President Sleiman and the political line he established,” Jumblatt said during the farewell ceremony for the president.

Prior to the ceremony, Sleiman presented Jumblatt with the National Order of the Cedar Medal “in appreciation for his national role and political moderation and his call for dialogue among political rivals.”

Sleiman expressed hope that the PSP leader would continue to play such role “to preserve the political stability in the country.”

Both Sleiman and Jumblatt classify themselves as centrists amid the sharp political divisions in the country, mainly between the March 8 and March 14 camps

Daily Star: BEIRUT: Strengthening the state can be for the benefit of the resistance, President Michel Sleiman said during a farewell meeting with employees of Presidential Palace in Baabda and journalists.

“The resistance does not get damaged by the emergence of the state, on the contrary a state can protect its role,” he said.

 

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