• The Taif Agreement (Arabic: اتفاق الطائف), officially known as the National Reconciliation Accord (وثيقة الوفاق الوطني), was reached to provide "the basis...
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    were also stationed in the country during this time. In 1989, the Taif Agreement marked the beginning of the end for the fighting as a committee appointed...
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    following the failure of disarmament negotiations, as required by the Taif Agreement, the Lebanese Army attacked Palestinian positions in Southern Lebanon...
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    following the failure of disarmament negotiations, as required by the Taif agreement, the Lebanese Army attacked Palestinian positions in Southern Lebanon...
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  • many of the provisions of the national pact were codified in the 1989 Taif Agreement, perpetuating sectarianism as a key element of Lebanese political life...
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    however, and it was one of the factors in the 1975–1990 civil war. The Taif Agreement of 1989, which ended the civil war, reapportioned the Parliament to...
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  • 1926 constitution, and in the National Pact of 1943. In 1990, with the Taif Agreement, the constitution was revised but did not structurally change aspects...
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    his tenure. He was widely credited for his role in constructing the Taif Agreement that ended the 15-year Lebanese Civil War. He also played a huge role...
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    to return. In the same month, the Lebanese Parliament agreed to the Taif Agreement, which included an outline timetable for Syrian withdrawal from Lebanon...
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    Taif (Arabic: اَلطَّائِفُ‎, romanized: Aṭ-Ṭāʾif, lit. 'The circulated or encircled', Hejazi Arabic pronunciation: [atˤˈ tˤaː(j)ɪf]) is a city and governorate...
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    must be a Sunnite, and the Speaker of Parliament must be a Shiite. The Taif Agreement helped establish a power-sharing system between the Christian and Muslim...
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    were called to defect from the Lebanese Army and made ground for the Taif agreement that ended the civil war. Berri also joined the National Unity government...
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    the plurality of the members of the Parliament of Lebanon (after the Taif Agreement, 1990). By convention, the office holder is always a Sunni Muslim. The...
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    October 1989 by Lebanese political leaders and business people under the Taif Agreement. The Second Republic emerged from the slow erosion of the Lebanese Civil...
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    led to the Taif agreement and, on 5 November 1989, the Lebanese Parliament elected a new president, Rene Muawad. Sfeir supported the Taif proposals which...
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    end of both the Iran–Iraq War and Lebanese Civil War as well as the Taif Agreement and the release of the Kuwait 17 bombers. A new leader was thought to...
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  • missiles. At the end of the Lebanese Civil War in 1990, despite the Taif Agreement asking for the "disbanding of all Lebanese and non-Lebanese militias...
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    Lebanese parliament, and whose efforts in brokering and fathering the Taif Agreement led to the end of the Lebanese Civil War in 1990. El-Husseini, recognized...
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  • political agreement, as the relative demographic weight of those groups is unknown. The constitution of 1926, amended after the Taif Agreement of 1990 and...
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    Liberation against Syrian Army forces on 14 March 1989, opposed the Taif Agreement, refused to recognize the newly elected presidents René Moawad and Elias...
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  • years, the civil war halted following successful negotiation of the Taif Agreement, which required the "disbanding of all Lebanese and non-Lebanese militias"...
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    historic turning points including the 1970 Presidential election, and the Taif Agreement in 1990. Sassine was born to a prominent Greek Orthodox family in Ashrafieh...
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  • War. The causes of the battle laid in the PLO's refusal to accept the Taif Agreement, which required the PLO to disarm. The government's deadline for PLO...
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    Mourabitoun launched a series of attacks on the Israel Defense Forces. The Taif Agreement in October 1989 ended the civil war. It provided equal representation...
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  • Parliament on 21 May 1987, and signed by Prime Minister Salim El Hoss. Taif Agreement Cobban, 1984, p. 47. Roeder & Rothchild, 2005, p. 231. Weisburd, 1997...
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  • commitment to the principles enshrined by the Lebanese constitution and the Taif Agreement; and as a result of this Conference, as well as of the bilateral and...
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  • sectarian rifts increased, eventually sparking the Lebanese Civil War. The Taif Agreement of 1989 changed the ratio of Parliament to 1:1 and reduced the power...
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    suburbs of Beirut through well-timed assaults. In 1989, Amal accepted the Taif agreement (mainly authored by el-Husseini) in order to end the civil war. In September...
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  • various Lebanese Factions signed the Taif Agreement in an attempt to end the Civil War, but Michel Aoun opposed the agreement, since it did not provide a deadline...
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    Lebanese sects, and due to the efforts of an Alawite leader Ali Eid, the Taif Agreement of 1989 gave them two reserved seats in the Parliament. Lebanese Alawites...
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