{"id":2782,"date":"2007-01-07T23:38:27","date_gmt":"2007-01-07T23:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wlcu.biz\/?p=2782"},"modified":"2007-01-07T23:38:27","modified_gmt":"2007-01-07T23:38:27","slug":"2007-01-07-press-release-07-january-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/2782\/","title":{"rendered":"2007-01-07-PRESS RELEASE &#8211; 07 January 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: small;\">The World Lebanese Cultural Union extends its warm wishes for a new year , hoping that 2007 will bring about stability and prosperity to Lebanon, and to the Lebanese people the ultimate fulfillment of hopes and aspirations. <\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: small;\">The following is the latest brief on our Union&#8217;s position regarding the current situation in Lebanon:<\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: small;\">1- The WLCU seeks the ultimate interest of Lebanon and its people and it is not taking side vis-\u00e0-vis the ongoing internal political conflict, however it opposes any foreign influence and pressure aiming to paralyze the Lebanese political daily life.<\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: small;\">2- The WLCU calls upon all concerned parties to refrain from prolonging their sit-ins in public places and resort to the conference table which is the natural haven to find a solution to the crisis.<\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: small;\">3- The WLCU reiterates its support to the international tribunal hoping to reveal the truth and put an end to all political assassinations and crimes committed in Lebanon. <\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: small;\">4- The WLCU looks at the current crisis with fear and distress, fear of the short term impact which is the imminent emigration with its negative demographic\u00a0consequences and distress regarding the gloomy long term repercussion the Lebanese economy would endure and suffer. <\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: small;\">5- The WLCU expresses its resentment towards the continious attempts of a local Beirut group to misrepresent\u00a0the World Lebanese Cultural Union. While visiting\u00a0some Lebanese officials,\u00a0this group\u00a0is\u00a0ironically giving lessons in patriotism\u00a0on national TV. This same group,\u00a0had been devoted to\u00a0partitionning our Union and to muting the emigrant&#8217;s free voice during the Syrian occupation of Lebanon.<\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: small;\">Anise Garabet\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 George Abi Raad<\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma; font-size: small;\">World President\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 World Secretary General<\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.annaharonline.com\/htd\/SEYA070110-21.HTM\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">http:\/\/www.annaharonline.com\/htd\/SEYA070110-21.HTM<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Lebanese Cultural Union extends its warm wishes for a new year , hoping that 2007 will bring about stability and prosperity to Lebanon, and to the Lebanese people the ultimate fulfillment of hopes and aspirations. The following is the latest brief on our Union&#8217;s position regarding the current situation in Lebanon: 1- The &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wlcu.world\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}