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Opposition, Majority Meet for First Time in 3 Months under Moussa Supervision |
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Written by Lebanon Today
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Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa said after a four-hour meeting between the warring political camps that the Arab plan was clear such as it does not give the majority half-plus-one government seats nor does it give the opposition veto power.
Moussa told reporters on Thursday after the meeting with opposition representative Gen. Michel Aoun, majority negotiator ex-President Amin Gemayel and al-Mustaqbal Movement leader Saad Hariri, that he has scheduled another round of consultations to be held after his return from Syria.
The daily An Nahar said the quartet meeting was likely to take place on Sunday when Moussa arrives back from Damascus.
The Arab League chief was expected to visit the Syrian capital on Friday.
After the meeting at the parliament building in downtown Beirut, Moussa told reporters they discussed topics related to the Arab initiative aimed at electing a new president and forming a national unity government.
He refused to go into details of the discussion, saying the meeting dealt mainly with implementing the Arab initiative.
In answering a question about differences in interpreting the initiative, Moussa said: "there is a clear interpretation of the initiative's second clause …the majority does not get half plus one (government seats) and the opposition does not take one third plus one."
He did not say whether such an interpretation was accepted during the talks, the first between the opposition and the majority in three months.
"There were some agreements on some topics and this makes me optimistic," Moussa said.
Hariri and Aoun held several meetings last year, including one in Paris in October. The Hizbullah-led opposition has named Aoun as its representative in any meeting with the majority -- a move that was rejected by the pro-government March 14 alliance.
"The horizons are opening up," Moussa said after a Thursday meeting with Prime Minister Fouad Saniora. "We are doing all we can to reach a solution."
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