Lebanon talks put off
NZPA-AP Beirut Israel and Lebanon agreed yesterday to delay talks aimed at ending Israel’s occupation of southern Lebanon after the Lebanese Prime Minister, Mr Rashid Karami, was unable to convene a Cabinet session to choose a negotiating team. Talks between Lebanese and Israeli military officials .were planned for today in the border town of Naqoura. Israel has occupied southern Lebanon since June, 1982. Mr Karami failed to convince key Cabinet members the Druse leader, Walid Jumblatt, and the Shi’ite Muslim leader, Nabih Berri — to return to Beirut from visits abroad for an emergency Cabinet session. Messrs Jumblatt and Berri said that they trusted Mr Karami to pick a delegation. But Government sources said that neither Mr Karami nor the President, Mr Amin Gemayel, was willing to do so without a firm commitment that the delegates and their decisions would not be challenged later.
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Press, 6 November 1984, Page 8
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