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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, we are delighted that the international community is demanding the withdrawal of the Syrian army from Lebanon. Not before time! Syria has occupied Lebanon since 1976 and the Taif Agreement called for its troops to pull out 15 years ago. It is a matter for regret that the proponents of this initiative are not the countries of Europe but the United States. France’s governments both of the left and of the right are particularly guilty here. By supporting the Syrian dictatorship until last year, they have betrayed the friendship that has bound our nation to Lebanon since the time of Louis IX, thus damaging France’s interests in this region.
We should not delude ourselves: the resignation of Karami’s puppet government and the announcement that Syrian troops are to be redeployed represent just one stage in the process. The complete withdrawal of Syria, that is to say of its army, of its information services and of its 500 000 immigrants, the disarmament of the Hezbollah Islamic militia, the holding of genuinely free elections, the return to their country of outlawed individuals such as General Aoun, the release of all political prisoners and in particular of the Christian leader Samir Geagea – these are the demands of the Lebanese people and the conditions that our own governments should be demanding from Syria’s leaders in order to re-establish Lebanon as a free and sovereign state."@en1
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