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Berri Mocks White House for Criticizing Latest Delay of Presidential Election

By Hussein Abdallah (The Daily Star)

posted on 03/12/08

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri criticized the United States on Tuesday for condemning his recent decision to postpone a scheduled parliament session to elect a new president to March 25. Berri accused the United States of blocking all solutions to Lebanon’s crisis. "How do you expect us to believe that you are concerned with seeing a new head of state in Lebanon after you openly said that you don’t support the Arab initiative, which outlines a way out of the deadlock?" Berri asked in a statement, addressing the United States. …

The White House condemned the latest delay as "unacceptable" and urged outside forces to stop meddling in the deadlocked political process, in a reference to Damascus.

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