Mansour Delays Sending Complaint to Ali Pending Validation of 'Some Facts on the Ground'
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour said Tuesday he is taking his time to hand a letter of complaint to the Syrian envoy over Syria’s violation of Lebanon’s border because he is trying to first verify “some facts on the ground.”
On Monday, President Michel Suleiman condemned a recent infiltration by Syrian troops into Lebanon’s eastern border region of al-Qaa and the shelling of several border towns, asking Mansour to hand Syrian Ambassador Ali Abdul Karim Ali a letter of complaint.
A Syrian force formed of 30 troops on Sunday infiltrated 500 meters into Lebanon’s eastern border region of Masharii al-Qaa and opened sporadic fire among the residents of the area.
In an interview with al-Manar television, Mansour stressed that Lebanon’s ties with Syria “will not be severed, neither now nor in the future,” noting that “the Syrian ambassador did not attack President Suleiman at all.”
“According to the available information, five Lebanese men were killed inside Syrian territory, that’s why we’re studying some facts on the ground ahead of handing Ambassador Ali the president’s letter of complaint,” Mansour added.
Meanwhile, ministerial sources told LBCI television that they expect a heated debate in cabinet over the letter of complaint “because the decision was not approved by the government and was not coordinated with the premier.”
Ali on Monday criticized the Lebanese complaint, saying "Syria must complain because its posts are being attacked from Lebanon."
24 July 2012, 22:00
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Get this ignorant coward and put him in between the frontier in Qaa. There he can eat the arriving shells.
24 July 2012, 22:07
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Send him with a one-way ticket to his Boss in Damascus, or to wherever hole Assad is hiding in...
24 July 2012, 23:14
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I guess he's the minister of Foreign Affairs, that means he's a minister who's had an affair with a foreign person namely Bashar Assad, not that there's anything wrong with that.
24 July 2012, 23:24
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The president gave him a formal complaint to present. Now he knows more than the president? These criminal thug days needs to get over with. The sooner ASSad is gone the better.
25 July 2012, 00:45
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What a weak Foregin Minster,soon he will be gone with the rest of the clowns.
25 July 2012, 00:58
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he should be tried for treason.....At least here the fact are clear and not pure speculation.
25 July 2012, 01:23
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Mansour disobedient..
When the President tasks a minister to deliver a letter, the minister should deliver the letter(Period). The President was crystal clear, and did NOT first order Mansour to verify “some facts on the ground.”
This is considered Insubordination.
In fact Mansour seems more interested in defending Syria's Ambassador than he is with Lebanon's security and the direct order from the President..
It's time for Suleiman, the Wise, to relieve Mansour from his post.
25 July 2012, 03:06
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The President of the republic represents Lebanon internationally. This is the constitution. If he ask you to deliver a letter, then deliver it!
25 July 2012, 06:36
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Can someone tell me why the president doesn't go around him?
Is his hair dyed? it looks so natural.
25 July 2012, 07:33
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Incompetence is the wrong word: this is a traitor asked to issue a complaint against his master.
25 July 2012, 08:01
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this is what represents our country wow i dont believe what im seeing
