Lebanon’s Aoun Calls for Arab Help on Peace
Lebanon’s Christian Maj. Gen. Michel Aoun, who rejected a 1989 Arab-brokered peace plan for his civil-war-torn nation, has urged Arab leaders to find a new deal satisfactory to all parties, officials said Monday.
Aoun, commander of half of Lebanon’s army, has written to the leaders of Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Algeria and to the Arab League about a peace pact, the officials said.
The 1989 accord divided power between Christian Maronites and the Muslim majority. But it failed to include a clear timetable for a Syrian withdrawal from Lebanon, which was cited by Aoun as his main reason for rejecting it.
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