U.S. Assistant Secretary of State David Welch held talks with Lebanon's prime minister and also was to meet with the speaker of Lebanon's Parliament.

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Distinguished alumni include a third of the current members of Lebanon's cabinet, a quarter of its members of parliament, the central bank governor and foreign minister of Jordan, and the Bush administration's hawkish special envoy to Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad.

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Mr. MUSTAFA ALUSH (Parliament Member, Lebanon): It could be the way out of this Michel Suleiman.

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