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Bush, Lebanese Prime Minister Meet at White House

VOA News
17 Apr 2002 13:29 UTC
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President Bush and Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri meet Wednesday at the White House for talks on the Mideast crisis.
 
 

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The White House says Mr. Bush will urge Mr. Hariri to end Hezbollah guerrilla rocket attacks from southern Lebanon onto targets on Israel's northern front. Israel has retaliated with air raids and artillery fire inside Lebanon. The exchanges have raised fears of a wider conflict beyond the fighting between Israelis and Palestinians.

 The two leaders also are expected to discuss a Mideast peace plan proposed by Saudi Arabia and endorsed by an Arab League summit last month. Arab states would recognize Israel in return for an Israeli withdrawal from lands seized in the 1967 Mideast war. In U.S. interviews, Mr. Hariri defended the Hezbollah attacks on the area known as Shebaa Farms, saying the tiny parcel of land is Lebanese territory under Israeli occupation. He told U.S. public television Lebanon has a right to to have the land back, by all means including the resistance.

 In another interview, he told the Cable News Network the root cause of the entire Middle East conflict is the Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands.
 
 

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