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» Thursday, November 16, 2006

Lebanese Prime Minister Siniora-Middle East-Iraq

The Prime Minister’s Official Spokesman (PMOS) told journalists that the Prime Minister had spoken to Prime Minister Siniora this afternoon, and he would also speak to Kofi Annan about the Sudan later on.

Asked for further details about the Prime Minister’s conversation with Prime Minister Siniora, the PMOS said that Prime Minister Siniora had set out the reasons why they were pressing ahead with the inquiry into the murder of the former Lebanese Prime Minister. The Prime Minister expressed his full support.

Asked if they had talked about initiative for a Middle East peace process, the PMOS replied that the Lebanese Prime Minister congratulated the Prime Minister on his Mansion House speech, and said that the prime Minister had expressed precisely and rightly the order in which issues should be addressed.

Put that there were some pieces on the wires that said that the French, Italians and Spanish were about to launch initiatives on the Middle East peace process, and the PMOS said that we would wait and see.

Put that there was a stray line on Iraq in the webchat that referred to an operation in Basra and them being halfway complete, and was that a specific operation, or did that mean we were halfway through, the PMOS said that it referred to Operation Sinbad, and it was about halfway through.

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