Mansour Says No Valid Reason to Expel Syrian Ambassador
Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour slammed on Thursday officials who are demanding the government to expel the Syrian Ambassador Ali Abdul Karim Ali, noting that such a move violates diplomatic norms and conventions.
“We follow certain norms that we will not bend,” Mansour said in comments published in al-Joumhouria newspaper.
He noted that there is no reason for the expulsion of the diplomat or for the abrupt withdrawal of the Lebanese Ambassador from Syria.
“The government has no convincing reasons to take such steps,” Mansour noted.
Asked about the campaign against him, he shrugged off criticism, saying: “I don’t care for these campaigns, I will not reply to them.”
On Wednesday the March 14 general-secretariat called following its weekly meeting for expelling the Syrian ambassador from Lebanon “after the embassy became a center of management of kidnapping and bombing operations.”
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