BEIRUT Cheap Men's Nike Air VaporMax 2.0 Black White , Sept. 3 (Xinhua) -- U.S. ambassador to Lebanon David Hale on Thursday urged the country to speed up electing a new president, one day after the Lebanese parliament failed for the 28th consecutive time to do so.


"America welcomes any efforts to reactivate a functioning government and cabinet. But there is a deeper issue. As the members of the U.N. Security Council reiterated yesterday, now is the time for parliament to meet and elect a president of the republic as soon as possible," Hale said after meeting with Lebanese Prime Minister Tammam Salam at the Grand Serail.


"The international community's support for Lebanon's sovereignty, security and stability is as strong as ever," he added.


Lebanon has been without a president since the six-year term of former President Michel Suleiman ended on May 25 Cheap Women's Nike Air VaporMax Chrome Blush String , 2014. Due to sharp political division, the parliament has failed, for more than two dozens of times, to achieve the constitutionally required quorum of two thirds of the 128-seat parliament.


Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri has called for a national dialogue conference on Sept. 9 to tackle the presidential vacuum, the work of the cabinet and the parliament, a new electoral law and ways to support the army and the Internal Security Forces.


The U.S. ambassador also highlighted the importance of protecting the right to "peaceful Cheap Men's Nike Air Max Plus Tartan Black University Red , non-violent protest," referring to the recent massive protests in the Lebanese capital Beirut that was triggered the waste crisis after the closure of the Naameh landfill, south of Beirut, on July 17.


"During these difficult times, Lebanon's people, leaders Cheap Nike Air Max Plus TN Ultra Shoes Triple Black , and institutions should come together, not pull apart," Hale said.


The growing protest campaign over the waste crisis has ballooned into anger at a stagnant and corrupt political class, as clashes between the protesters and the security forces have left about 160 people injured.


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RIGA, Sept. 12 (Xinhua) -- Latvian President Raimonds Vejonis has put before lawmakers a new bill that would allow non-citizens' children to become Latvian citizens at birth, but one of the partners in Latvia's center-right government coalition has already promised to block its passage in parliament, local media reported.


The rightist National Alliance has said it will exercise its veto rights under the coalition agreement to prevent the draft law from being adopted.


Vejonis proposes to stop registering non-citizens' children, born after June 1, 2018 Cheap Men's Nike Air Max Plus TN Ultra Black Gold , as non-citizens and grant them Latvian citizenship unless their parents choose to register them as citizens of some other country. The president believes that this would help consolidate the Latvian nation on the basis of common values.


The president reminded that non-citizenship status was introduced in Latvia and its neighbor Estonia as a temporary solution in the early 1990s. At present, however, babies born to non-citizens are only registered as non-citizens in Latvia.


"Ending the registration of children as non-citizens is a symbolic step that would end the divisions purposefully created between various groups of Latvia's society," Vejonis said, adding that doing away with non-citizenship would enable consolidation of Latvia's society, allowing to devote all efforts to the country's development.


If the bill is adopted Cheap Women's Nike Air Max TN Shoes Pink White , it would apply to approximately 50 to 80 newsborns a year. Last year, 52 babies born in Latvia were registered as non-citizens.


Although the president's initiative has already been endorsed by the opposition leftist Harmony party, Edgars Tavars, the leader of the ruling Green Party, a group of lawmakers who recently left the ruling center-right Unity party to form a new liberal party, as well as Ombudsman Juris Jansons Cheap Men's Nike Air Max TN Shoes Black White , its future is quite uncertain because the National Alliance's resistance, which can threaten the coalition's stability.


Latvian Prime Minister Maris Kucinskis said Tuesday morning that he would not risk a disintegration of the current government coalition and that the president's citizenship proposal would therefore be rejected.


Under the current legislation, effective since 2013, non-citizens' children can be registered as Latvian citizens if at least one of the parents has expressly declared such a wish.


Since the mid-1990s when non-citizens made up 29 percent of Latvia's population, their share has contracted to 11 percent, according to the data of the Latvian citizenship and migration authority.


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