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The government appoints forty new deputies to parliament.
Among the forty were thirteen ministers; Elie Hobeika took Pierre Gemayel's old seat. Nine seats were new, thirty-one vacated by deaths since 1972. Picard says they were picked for compliance with Damascus or militia power.

UN Security Council Resolution 1559 demands the withdrawal of foreign forces.
The Franco-American resolution, passed by nine votes with six abstentions, required every foreign force to leave, every militia to disarm and the presidential election to proceed free of outside interference. Walid Jumblatt sided with the opposition, most of it Christian.