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Top officials in Lebanon have said they would boycott the meeting over a dispute with Tripoli on the disappearance of leading Shiite cleric Mussa Sadr.
Sadr -- who is still regarded by Lebanon's Shiites as a key spiritual guide -- vanished on August 31, 1978, and the circumstances of his disappearance are still a mystery. He was last seen in Libya.
An official told AFP earlier this month that Sleiman would not attend the summit in response to a request by parliament speaker Nabih Berri, a Shiite who heads the Amal movement founded by Sadr.
In 2008 Lebanon issued an arrest warrant for Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi over Sadr's disappearance while he was in Tripoli with two companions, who also went missing.
Libya has denied involvement in Sadr's disappearance. It says the man left the country for Italy, but the Italian government has always denied he arrived there.
However, in 2004 Italian authorities returned a passport found in Italy belonging to the imam.
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Sadr -- who is still regarded by Lebanon's Shiites as a key spiritual guide -- vanished on August 31, 1978, and the circumstances of his disappearance are still a mystery. He was last seen in Libya.
An official told AFP earlier this month that Sleiman would not attend the summit in response to a request by parliament speaker Nabih Berri, a Shiite who heads the Amal movement founded by Sadr.
In 2008 Lebanon issued an arrest warrant for Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi over Sadr's disappearance while he was in Tripoli with two companions, who also went missing.
Libya has denied involvement in Sadr's disappearance. It says the man left the country for Italy, but the Italian government has always denied he arrived there.
However, in 2004 Italian authorities returned a passport found in Italy belonging to the imam.
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