Arab League Panel Opens Talks on Lebanon Crisis
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KUWAIT — An Arab League committee opened talks Tuesday with Lebanese religious leaders in a fresh bid to reconcile Lebanon’s warring factions and end a five-month-old political crisis.
Committee chairman Sheik Sabah al Ahmed al Sabah, Kuwait’s foreign minister, warned it could be the last chance to save Lebanon from splitting apart.
“If the Lebanese do not take advantage of the spirit of international harmony and do not benefit from the efforts of the Arab League committee, then the chance may not return,” he told participants in opening remarks.
The committee is made up of the foreign ministers of Kuwait, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Algeria, Sudan and Tunisia. It held its inaugural meeting in Tunis last month.
Lebanon, ravaged by nearly 14 years of civil strife, has since last September had no president, rival Christian- and Muslim-led governments and a paralyzed Parliament.
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