Arab League envoy says Syria will back efforts on Lebanon
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BEIRUT -- The Arab League won vital Syrian support yesterday for its efforts to end a standoff between Lebanon's government and a Hezbollah-led opposition that has been rallying hundreds of thousands in central Beirut, an envoy said.
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WASHINGTON [MENL] -- The United States said Syria threatened Lebanese parliamentarians as part of an effort to ensure the rule of President Emile Lahoud.
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The European Union's foreign policy chief will urge Syria on Wednesday to do more to help ease tensions in Lebanon and Iraq during a visit that will end a two-year freeze on high-level EU contacts with Damascus.
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BEIRUT, 29 August 2004 - Lebanonâs Cabinet approved a bill yesterday that would allow President Emile Lahoud to seek re-election, pleasing power broker Syria but opposed by a growing number of influential Lebanese and several major foreign powers.
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President Emile Lahoud appointed  pro-Syrian Omar Karami as Lebanon's prime minister on Thursday,  a move likely to strengthen Syria's role in Lebanon despite  international pressure on Damascus to pull out its troops.
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Gulf Arab ministers urged Syria on Monday to respect a UN Security Council resolution demanding it withdraw its troops from Lebanon, a rare public intervention in the affairs of a fellow Arab nation.
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A senior Palestinian official said here on Monday that the Palestinian leadership wanted to have further coordination and consultations with Syria and Lebanon.
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The United States is increasing its pressure against Syria to force the Arab state to stop backing anti-Israeli resistance in the Palestinian territories and Lebanon, Syria's information minister said Saturday.
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France's president has told Syria to use its influence to allow the Lebanese presidential election to go ahead on Saturday and suggested his patience with Damascus was wearing thin, a pan-Arab newspaper reported on Wednesday.
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The United States will invite the members of an Arab League panel that includes Syria and Saudi Arabia to a Middle East peace conference it plans to hold this year, a senior U.S. official said on Sunday.
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Arab League chief Amr Moussa failed on Thursday to broker a deal to resolve Lebanon's political crisis, a senior Lebanese political source said.
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Arab League chief Amr Moussa said on Thursday he had made progress toward a deal to resolve Lebanon's political crisis, but that there was no agreement.
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Lebanon's pro-Syrian president said on Thursday he would appoint an interim government headed by the army chief if rival Lebanese leaders cannot agree on a new head of state before his term expires in November.
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Lebanon said on Tuesday Syria would  redeploy some 3,000 troops from the outskirts of Beirut east  toward the Syrian-Lebanon border, in an apparent bid to ease  U.S.-led pressure over its influence on Lebanon.
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Arab League foreign ministers open a two-day meeting here on Tuesday focused on Lebanon and its relations with Syria, the situation in war-wracked Iraq, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Syria could attend an upcoming Middle East peace conference in Washington as part of an Arab League committee, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Sunday.
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The Arab League has made progress toward solving the political crisis in Lebanon, although it has yet to achieve a breakthrough, the league's Secretary General Amr Moussa said on Saturday.