By NNN-KUNA,
Beirut : Activists of the opposition immediately after announcing a settlement accord in the Qatari capital started dismantling a camp of protest in downtown Beirut on Wednesday.
Sources in the Lebanese opposition camp told KUNA that many tents that had been erected in downtown Beirut, the nerve center of trade activity in the capital, were being brought down by activists of the oppositin political parties.
The camp was being removed after Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, one of the top leaders who took part in crafting the crucial conciliation settlement in the Qatari capital, announced lifting the protest in the center of the capital.
The camp of many tents, erected by several parties of the opposition, had been established in protest of the policies of the government of Fuad Al-Siniora and the majority.
Downtown Beirut is the nerve center of businesses in the Lebanese capital. It had been larely demolished during the 1975-1990 civil war.
But the late ex-premier, Rafic Al-Hariri, had masterminded a wide-scale reconstruction process that turned the zone from a site of ruins and piles of rubble into a modern-style downtown with shopping stores, cafes and various businesses.