High hopes for Beirut
peace move NZPA-Reuter Beirut The Lebanese Presidentelect (Mr Elias Sarkis) has started a round of peace talks at Shtoura, near the Syrian border, with the Syrian Deputy Defence Minister (General Naji Jamil) and the Palestinian commando leader (Mr Yassar Arafat). Today, he is due to travel to Cairo, where a series of of Lebanese leaders, including the Moslem Prime Minister (Mr Rashid Karami) and the Falangist Party chief (Mr Pierre Gemayel) have made similar trips this week. With fighting on the various battlefronts at a comparatively low level in the last week, political sources believe that many war-weary Lebanese are hoping that the new President’s standing as an impartial, honest technocrat may enable him to find some way to end the conflict.
In Cairo, Mr Karami on Thursday called for a roundtable conference of all Lebanese religious and political factions aimed at ending the bloody 17-month-old civil war, and observers said that the President-elect appeared to be trying to arrange such a peace conference. Plans for the meeting at Shtoura were announced on Thursday night by Dr Hassan Sabri-al-Kholi, the Arab League’s special envoy in Lebanon and will be held under the auspices of the 21member Arab League.
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