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Washington: We can not help you, go for settlement

Washington: We can not help you, go for settlement
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Source: Al-Manar, 14-05-2008
The Arab delegation arrived in Beirut Wednesday for a tour of opposition and loyalty officials to discuss the Lebanese crisis and ways to solve it.
In a good gesture by the opposition, the road leading to Beirut's international airport was reopened to facilitate the movement of the delegation.
The Aram ministerial team is headed by headed by Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem al-Thani, and includes the foreign ministers of Algeria, Djibouti, Jordan, Morocco, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen.
Arab League chief Amr Mussa, who arrived in Doha on Tuesday, said that the crisis in Lebanon got more complicated
The delegation is expected to hold talks with the head of the unconstitutional government Fouad Saniora, Speaker Nabih Berri, army chief Gen. Michel Suleiman, Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun, Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblatt Future Movement leader MP Saad Hariri.
The Lebanese daily An-Nahar said the delegation will start talks by meeting with Berri at his Beirut mansion in Ain el-Tineh.
It added that Berri will stress to the committee the need for the government to revoke its decisions, which caused a deterioration in the security situation lately, before discussing details about the implementation of the Arab League initiative.
The daily quoted Berri as saying that he would be heading dialogue in the event talks resumed, adding that he does not mind holding roundtable discussions outside Lebanon. Saudi Arabia refused that Qatar hosts Lebanon's round table talks.
Last week, Saniora's ruling bloc decided to remove the chief of security in Beirut's international airport Wafiq Shqeir and to label the Resistance's communications network as illegal.
In the meantime, Saniora called on his ministerial team to hold a meeting on Wednesday, amid uncertainty about whether they will revoke their controversial decisions or not.
For its part the US administration continued to inject Saniora's collapsing bloc with anesthetic to remain standing as long as possible. But Washington has apparently backed down on Saniora and his bloc with US Undersecretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs David Welch urging his allies in Lebanon to be solid and raise their political ceiling to improve the conditions of the internal settlement. US President George W. Bush had earlier said that the only solution for Lebanon was a diplomatic solution, stressing that the destroyer USS Cole is in the Mediterranean on exercise.
In previous warnings, Bush used to say that his destroyers have deployed off the Lebanese coast to protect Fouad Saniora and his government.