Lebanon celebrated Tuesday its 68th Independence Day with a military parade in the capital Beirut, amid calls for national unity and civil peace.
"I call upon you to dissociate yourselves from whatever would adversely affect our national unity, civil peace and your legitimate dreams of a peaceful, secure and promising future," Lebanon's President Michel Suleiman said in a speech on the eve of the country's independence from France in 1943, DPA reported.
The parade was attended by Suleiman, House Speaker Nabih Berri and Prime Minister Nagib Mikati.