SYRIA: Arab League secretary-general Amr Moussa meets with Syrian vice-president Farouk al-Shara says situation in Lebanon is dangerous

Arab League secretary-general Amr Moussa on Monday (July 9) described the political crisis in Lebanon as "dangerous" and called on all parties to unite in order to resolve it. "The situation is very dangerous so we have to be unified, and we must show solidarity and confer," Moussa reporters in Damascus, shortly after he held talks with Syrian vice-President Farouk al-Shara Lebanon was plunged into its worst political crisis since the 1975-1990 civil war last November, when opposition ministers quit Siniora's government after he refused to grant the opposition veto power in government. The Lebanese army has also been fighting al Qaeda-inspired Fatah al-Islam militants in northern Lebanon where at least 204 people have been killed since May 20. Bombs in and around Beirut, an assassination on an anti-Syrian lawmaker and a fatal car bomb attack on U.N. peacekeepers in southern Lebanon, further exacerbate Lebanon's fragile political landscape. The anti-Syrian majority in Siniora's cabinet accuses the opposition, made up of mainly Christian and pro-Syrian Shi'ite Muslim factions, of trying to derail a special tribunal to try suspects in the 2005 killing of ex-premier Rafik al-Hariri. Pro-government leaders say Syria is responsible for Hariri's assassination, a charge Damascus denies.

ITN Source | July 10, 2007

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