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Hezbollah to send ex-minister to France
The group
has assigned senior official Mohammed Fneish to the two-member team, along with foreign affairs chief Nawaf Mussawi, AFP quoted late Friday a Hezbollah spokesman as saying.
Fneish was energy minister in the government of the US-backed Prime Minister Fuad Siniora before resigning along with five other ministers in November.
Lebanon has been deadlocked since November when six opposition ministers quit the cabinet, charging it was riding roughshod over the power-sharing arrangements in force since the 1975-1990 civil war.
The opposition coalition, led by Hezbollah, insists on formation of a unity government.
After talks with a French envoy who delivered invitations for the mid-July dialogue, Mussawi said on Wednesday that Hezbollah welcomes the initiative, which showed France was "standing alongside the Lebanese without taking sides."
The meeting will take place on July 14-16 with between 30 and 40 delegates taking part, the foreign ministry in Paris announced on Friday, rather than July 14-17 as announced by the envoy while in Beirut.
Two members of the Siniora government, Telecommunication Minister Marwan Hamadeh and Youth Minister Ahmed Fatfat, are also to take part in the meetings outside Paris.
French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner is to play the role of moderator in a bid to ease the worst political crisis in Lebanon since the 1990 end of a 15-year civil war.