Meeting of Openness and Reconciliaiton -Leqa' al-Mosalaha w al-Mosaraha

Organisation:

Political Parties/Local Communities

Overall Objective:

Truth and Reconciliation

Type of Activity:

Other

Geographic Target:

Nationwide

Status:

Completed

Type of Organisation:

Political Parties

Initiative's Approach:

Reconciliation

Target Group:

Political Parties

Launched in:

2008

Description:

In 2008, the Reconciliation and Openness Meeting took place in Beit Al-Kataeb (House of Phalangists) on the anniversary of the outbreak of the civil war in Lebanon. It was attended by Lebanese and Palestinian political figures. The most prominent participants were president Amin Gemayel representing Kataeb, MP Akram Chehayeb representing the head of the "Progressive Socialist Party," MP Walid Jumblatt, Ambassador Abbas Zaki, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) representative in Lebanon, and Nadim Abdel Samad, the head of the "Democratic Left Movement". The aim of the meeting was to show unity and to confirm the end of “yesterday’s enmity and hatred” as well as the rejection of the resettlement of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, since permanent resettlement in Lebanon to Palestinians means that they would have abandoned their right to return to Palestine.