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Mufti Chaar urges Christian leaders to elect new president

28-07-2014 | 05:33

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Mufti of Tripoli and the North Sheikh Malek Chaar urged on Monday all deputies and Christian leaderships to elect a new president who shall preserve Lebanon's land, constitution, sovereignty, independence and citizens.

Chaar's statements were made as he held Eid al-Fitr prayers at the Mansouri mosque in Lebanon's northern city of Tripoli.

He also called on Tripoli's political officials to exert concerted efforts in order to avoid sedition, and thanked the concerned authorities for launching Tripoli's security plan.

In April, army troops started implementing, in cooperation with the security apparatuses, a security plan in the northern city of Tripoli.

This comes after the cabinet tasked the army and security forces with controlling the security situation in Tripoli and the eastern Bekaa Valley in areas bordering Syria.

Disputes from neighboring Syria's civil war frequently inflame sectarian grievances in Tripoli.

These clashes pit gunmen from both the mostly Sunni Bab Tabbaneh district that supports the uprising in Syria, and the Jabal Mohsen district which mostly comprises residents of Syrian President Bashar Assad's Alawite sect, a Shiite Islam offshoot.

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