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Bassil meets Geagea in highest-level impasse talks yet
BEIRUT: Free Patriotic Movement minister
Gebran Bassil met with Lebanese Forces
chief Samir Geagea late-Monday, amid
attempts to broker a meeting between
the leaders of each party seen as crucial to
ending the country's presidential impasse.
A statement from Geagea’s office Tuesday said he and Bassil, who is Lebanon's foreign minister
and the son-in-law of FPM chief Michel Aoun, discussed many issues, including granting
Lebanese expatriates dual citizenship.
The two-line statement did not make reference to the anticipated dialogue between Geagea
and Aoun, but Bassil is the highest ranking official affiliated with the FPM to visit the LF chief
over the months of preliminary talks.
Ibrahim Kanaan, the head of Aoun's parliamentary bloc, had visited Geagea twice in recent
weeks to lay the groundwork for dialogue.
The talks are seen as an effort to break the presidential impasse. The country has been without
a president since May. Both Aoun and Geagea are candidates, but neither has enough
parliamentary support to win.
Aoun said last week that minor progress had been made in the presidential crisis, despite the
generally gloomy prospects for ending the deadlock that has left Lebanon without a president
for 10 months.
Source: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2015/Mar-24/291965-bassil-meets-
geagea-in-highest-level-impasse-talks-yet.ashx