Lebanese politicians have overcome divisions to agree at their first National Dialogue meeting in over 18 months, to finance the army to prevent Syrian violence from spilling over the border.
Lebanon has seen clashes between supporters and opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Its border region has also been used by rebels to smuggle arms into Syria, while Syrian troops have taken refuge in the area.
Lebanese leaders agreed on the need to control the situation along the border, in order to prevent the creation of a buffer zone in Lebanon and to deny the area to armed men. Lebanon’s politicians are at odds with each other over the Syrian unrest, with Shi’ite Muslim Hezbollah supporting Assad and others backing the opposition.
Lebanon's President Michel Suleiman (C) leads a new session of the
National Dialogue between politician leaders at the Presidential Palace
in Baabda, near Beirut, June 11, 2012.
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