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LEBANON - Nov. 3 - MPs Wants Syrian Troops Redeployed.


With parliament debating PM Hariri's new government plan, MP and Druze leader Walid Jumblatt demands a redeployment of Syria's 35,000 troops soil in line with the 1990 Ta'if agreement, saying: "I do understand the importance of stationing some Syrian troops (in Lebanon) for strategic purposes, but I do hope the Syrian leadership will review some of the points. The talk that the Syrian presence is necessary, legitimate and temporary is vague...and if the presence is necessary then let us decide its timetable". Leading Christian MP Albert Moukhaiber urges Syria to leave this country and warns of active opposition to its presence. (The calls coincide with a relentless campaign by Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Sfeir to end the Syrian presence in Lebanon. Jumblatt has forged alliances with Christian figures strongly opposed to the Syrian presence, alliances which helped him make a strong showing in the Aug. general elections. Christian hardliners opposed to Syria's presence were kept out of Hariri's new cabinet).

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Title Annotation:out of Lebanon
Publication:APS Diplomat Recorder
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:7LEBA
Date:Nov 4, 2000
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