Introduction to the evening news 04-09-2012

Yesterday’s speech voiced by the Syrian Minster of Information regarding the Lebanese situation, received all but acceptance.       

Officials positions will be addressed by cabinet in tomorrow’s session, but March 14 forces however upped their demands via a memorandum they handed over to the Lebanese President. In this memo, March 14 called for the annulment of the security agreement signed between Lebanon and Syria, the immobilization of the Syrian Lebanese Higher Council in addition to the transfer of the “criminal charges" in reference to former minister Michel Samaha and Syrian Major General Ali Mamlouk, to the Judicial Council, and considering the Syrian ambassador as a persona non-Grata.          

This memorandum led to successive reactions and criticisms and the first to criticize was General Michel Aoun after the weekly meeting of the Change and Reform Bloc.Whether imposed or previously planned, all these files will be present on the Cabinet’s agenda tomorrow. Probably the series of ranks and salaries will be the most pressing issue on the table.         

As for the Syrian file, President Bashar al-Assad held talks today the Red Cross chief. Meanwhile, the French president Nicolas Sarkozy considered that Syria is governed by a group of officials committing massacres, and expressed his encouragement to form an alternative government.But first the highlights of March 14's memorandum.


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