LF, FPM Move to Drop Lawsuits Filed against Each Other
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The Lebanese Forces and the Free Patriotic Movement announced Wednesday that they have decided to drop lawsuits filed against journalists and media outlets affiliated with the two political groups.
“The legal department has started efforts to drop all lawsuits filed against the FPM's journalists and media outlets over libel and slander against the LF and its chief,” the LF's media department announced in a statement.
The FPM's media committee for its part issued a communique announcing that “the FPM's lawyers and legal studies committee has moved to drop libel and slander lawsuits filed against LF-affiliated media outlets and journalists.”
The development comes ahead of expected dialogue that the two parties said will be held soon between LF leader Samir Geagea and FPM chief MP Michel Aoun.
The LF's statement, however, linked the decision to “the occasion of the Christmas and New Year holidays,” attributing the move to a personal decision by party leader Geagea.
The FPM meanwhile said the step is aimed at “propping up accord efforts, at the directions of General Michel Aoun.”
MP Ibrahim Kanaan of the FPM and the LF's media officer Melhem Riachi have recently held several meetings aimed at preparing for the Aoun-Geagea talks.
Y.R.
31 December 2014, 19:23
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best wishes to you as you rest in peace in your final destination
31 December 2014, 19:31
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poor lawyers! everyone give a thought for the lawyers of the fpm and lf.
31 December 2014, 20:54
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A better way to close the year would have been for all our might politician thugs that were involved in the civil war (that includes Berri, Jumblat, HA, LF, FPM, etc) to just disappear and allow new faces/parties to move in and replace them.
Still happy New Year, we must keep the hope alive.
01 January 2015, 01:04
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Bith parties should agree to a New Year's resolution by jailing Flamey
01 January 2015, 15:47
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Between these two old dinosaurs of a bygone era, not only the very unity and survival of Lebanon's Christians is at stake, but the very unity and survival of all the Lebanese. If Lebanon since the end of the fratricidal Christian war of the 90s still can't find its soul and orientation, that's principally because of these two moguls. The earlier these two agree to cool it, then to leave the scene, the better for a whole nation waiting to live.
