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July 20, 2010

July 20, 2010 - Now Lebanon - Sleiman calls for calm after Nasrallah’s statement

NOW Lebanon’s correspondent reported on Tuesday that President Michel Sleiman voiced the importance of “the need to keep things calm and away from the media as was agreed upon during the national dialogue sessions.”

This comes after Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah made a fiery statement, calling the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) an Israeli project that aims at targeting the party and inciting sectarian strife in Lebanon.

The statement was harshly criticized by March 14 MPs.

Sleiman met on Tuesday with top figures, including Prime Minister Saad Hariri, Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun, Future bloc leader MP Fouad Siniora and Loyalty to the Resistance bloc leader MP Mohammad Raad.

Also, the president discussed with Hariri his recent visit to Syria, during which the latter met with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu.
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