BEIRUT: The Gathering for Taif and the Constitution stressed the need to implement the Taif Accord in a statement it released on Thursday, for the occasion of the 20th anniversary of signing the agreement. The statement said that the pact  which ended the Lebanese Civil War in 1989, was the only serious document available to rebuild a permanent Lebanese Arab free country. It added that the current situation in Lebanon was against the interests of the Lebanese and of the country’s traditions, and that it did not relate in any shape to the Taif Accord. The statement also said that Taif was indispensable and that implementing it was a priority. “Articles can be amended and improved whenever necessary according to legislative procedures,” it said. “We worked hard to reach a fair agreement in impossible circumstances … but the agreement wasn’t implemented except by the first government,” the statement said. – The Daily Star