Hamade meets prelate, says Shebaa Farms Lebanese
12th Sep 2005, 05:22 GMT
Labor Minister Tarrad Hamade insisted yesterday that the Shebaa Farms are Lebanese territories, in a response to U.S. Ambassador Jeffrey Feltman's recent statements that they were Syrian. Speaking in his first visit to Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Butros Sfeir, Hamade - who is close to Hizbullah - said:
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