Mansour Denies Saying Hizbullah Drone Did Not Violate Resolution 1701
Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour denied on Tuesday media reports quoting him as saying that Hizbullah's drone over Israel had not violated United Nations Security Council resolution 1701, his media office said in a statement.
The minister was quoted as saying that the “drone did not violate resolution 1701 and Lebanon will assume responsibility for Hizbullah's stances.”
The remarks were published in An Nahar daily on October 14.
The media office added: “The minister did not make such remarks during the interview.”
“The interviewee was better off publishing exactly what was stated by the minister instead of distorting the remarks in a misleading manner,” it stressed.
On October 6, Hizbullah launched an unmanned drone over Israel, which the Jewish state shot down.
Party chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah acknowledged the development in a speech on Thursday.
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