Tour guides host hike to promote Chouf Nature Reserve
September 8, 2008
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CHOUF: The Chouf Cedars Association organized a tour inside the Chouf Nature Reserve on Sunday to promote rural development and ecotourism in the region. Under the sponsorship of Democratic Gathering leader MP Walid Jumblatt, more than 100 tour guides took part in the three-hour hike near the Chouf village of Baatharan. The trip also included the inauguration of a public library and of a shop that sells local products as well as traditional Lebanese foods in Baatharan, which is at the heart of the Chouf Nature Reserve.
Dialogue and reconciliation have to go hand in hand, Sleiman tells Lebanese
September 4, 2008
BEIRUT: President Michel Sleiman said on Wednesday that achieving national unity in Lebanon required reconciliation and true dialogue between the Lebanese. “There will be no reconciliation without dialogue and no dialogue without reconciliation,” Sleiman told a delegation from the Lebanese Press Federation which visited him at the Presidential Palace.
U.N. peacekeeper killed in Lebanon
September 4, 2008
BEIRUT, Lebanon (CNN) — A United Nations peacekeeper working to clear landmines died Wednesday in southern Lebanon, according to a spokeswoman for the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon.
U.N. peacekeepers have had a presence in Lebanon since 1978 after Israel withdrew.
The person died in an explosion as the UNIFIL explosive ordnance disposal team surveyed a field near the village of Aitaroun, where mines are believed to have been planted, according to spokeswoman Yasmina Bouziane. It was UNIFIL’s second mine-related death since 2006, she said.
“UNIFIL medical and explosive ordnance disposal teams were immediately dispatched to the location and an investigation is under way,” she said. Read more
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