Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. XLVII

No 36

6-September-2004

The Political Scene (6 September 2004)

The Lebanese cabinet has endorsed the idea of changing the constitution to allow President Emile Lahoud known to be Syrias candidate to run for a further three-year term, and the Americans (and French) do not like it. To underline their point they tabled a UN Security Resolution calling for respect of Lebanons sovereignty that was narrowly adopted a few days later. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel...