Mansour Says Mustaqbal Wants Enmity with Syria 'while it Previously Sought Regime Support'

Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour said on Tuesday that al-Mustaqbal parliamentary bloc demands the adoption of a position of enmity towards Syria “while they sought Syrian support in the past”.

"We will not adopt a hostile stand towards,” Mansour confirmed in an interview with al-Manar television.

He noted: “It is not the first time that al-Mustaqbal calls for dismissing the FM".

"The cabinet and the premier are their targets but they attack the ministry instead," Mansour pointed out.

The FM's statement comes after al-Mustaqbal bloc had demanded earlier on Tuesday discharging the minister of his duties following comments made by Syrian Ambassador to Lebanon Ali Abdul Karim Ali after meeting with him at the Bustros Palace.

Ali had said on Saturday that the Syrian Army is responding to the sources of fire along the Lebanese border to preserve the country's stability.

“The Syrian territories are attacked by gunmen, from various nationalities, who are entering Lebanon and violating the sovereignty of Lebanon and Syria,” he said.

The violence in Syria has increasingly spilled over into Lebanon, with cross-border shelling in the north and east.

Two men were killed last week in the Wadi Khaled area that borders Syrian in northern Lebanon.

Artillery, mortar fire and automatic weapons were used in battles between Syrian troops and fighters on the Lebanese side of the border overnight Saturday to Sunday, said a senior Lebanese security official.