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Attorney Rashad Salameh told
An-Nahar Daily that the Syrian state appointed him to file a lawsuit in Lebanon as quickly as possible.
Salameh added that he will be presenting the complaint before the Cassation General Prosecution in Beirut on Friday or Monday.
The lawsuit will be filed against MP Okab Sakr and all those who might appear involved during the investigations. The claimant is the Syrian state represented by its ambassador to Lebanon Ali Abdel Karim Ali. However, the content of the accusation remains undisclosed but according to Salameh, it is related to acts of crime.
Informed sources reported to
As Safir Daily that the meeting between the March 14 delegation and Speaker Nabih Berri on Thursday was not fruitful, since March 14’s decision about its participation in the meetings of the sub-parliamentary committee commissioned to discuss electoral law proposals remains inconclusive.
According to the sources Berri said to the delegation: “Make up your minds and inform me about your decision.”
In this context, MP Marwan Hamadeh told
Al Liwaa Newspaper that Speaker Berri insisted that the first meeting of the sub-committee be held in the parliament to later be followed by meetings held in other locations outside parliament, however the March 14 delegation did not approve this suggestion.
Minister for Economy and Trade Nicolas Nahas said in an interview with
Al Joumhouria Daily that the Syndicate Coordination Committee’s demand to endorse equal ranks and salaries pay scale requires enormous amounts of money.
Nahas added that PM Najib MIkati considers that meeting those demands necessitate a study divided into three different phases; the financing sources, the influence on monetary state and the influence on the economy in general.
According to the minister, the study that Mikati presented during the last cabinet session could be considered despite “political criticisms”.
Al Joumhouria Daily published on Friday that according to very well informed sources, intensified efforts were exerted in the past few hours to transfer the bodies of the Lebanese who were killed in the Talkalakh ambush from Syria, stressing that 6 of the bodies were identified while 4 others remain anonymous.
The sources added that after 3 bodies were delivered last Sunday, the Lebanese and Syrian authorities are still in contact to reveal the identity of the 4 remaining bodies, stating that these bodies could belong to non-Lebanese men and if that were the case, the rest of the Lebanese young men who were reported missing during the ambush would be considered as missing persons or detainees in Syria.
The newspaper added that the special committee commissioned by the General Security to follow up this case might conduct DNA tests to know if these bodies belong to Lebanese nationals.
Ministerial sources told
Al Joumhouria Daily that the cabinet is unlikely to make additional administrative appointments before the end of 2012, however some positions in regulatory institutions and bodies may be filled.
According to the sources, new appointments could be endorsed with the beginning of the new year, especially in some public institutions after political and ministerial talks were finalized in this regard.