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SLEIMAN: ARAB SPRING BENEFITS LEBANON
Zawya.com
http://www.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidDS08122011_dsart-156298
Dec 8 2011
BEIRUT: President Michel Sleiman said Wednesday that the ongoing
developments in the region will move countries in the Arab world toward
a democratic political system and would serve the interests of Lebanon.
In an interview with a Yerevan-based Armenian TV on the eve of his
official visit to Armenia, Sleiman said that countries in the region
could not remain on the sidelines of the political transformation
that the world was going through as a result of globalization.
"Countries in the Arab world cannot stand outside of this
transformation and progress ... the Arab world is currently going
through a transformation toward democracy and a system that Lebanon
would benefit from because it has had a democratic system for a long
time," said Sleiman.
Since the beginning of pro-democracy uprisings in Tunisia in December
of last year, three Arab presidents have been overthrown and ongoing
protests in Syria continue to call for President Bashar Assad's
departure from power.
"These developments will also result in a change in leadership,"
Sleiman added.
Sleiman said that changes in the Arab world should include a change
in the situation in occupied Palestine. "It is not enough to have
democracy in the Arab world, there should also be a solution to the
Palestinian struggle ... who should regain their rights in a sovereign
Palestine," said Sleiman.
Zawya.com
http://www.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidDS08122011_dsart-156298
Dec 8 2011
BEIRUT: President Michel Sleiman said Wednesday that the ongoing
developments in the region will move countries in the Arab world toward
a democratic political system and would serve the interests of Lebanon.
In an interview with a Yerevan-based Armenian TV on the eve of his
official visit to Armenia, Sleiman said that countries in the region
could not remain on the sidelines of the political transformation
that the world was going through as a result of globalization.
"Countries in the Arab world cannot stand outside of this
transformation and progress ... the Arab world is currently going
through a transformation toward democracy and a system that Lebanon
would benefit from because it has had a democratic system for a long
time," said Sleiman.
Since the beginning of pro-democracy uprisings in Tunisia in December
of last year, three Arab presidents have been overthrown and ongoing
protests in Syria continue to call for President Bashar Assad's
departure from power.
"These developments will also result in a change in leadership,"
Sleiman added.
Sleiman said that changes in the Arab world should include a change
in the situation in occupied Palestine. "It is not enough to have
democracy in the Arab world, there should also be a solution to the
Palestinian struggle ... who should regain their rights in a sovereign
Palestine," said Sleiman.