Foreign Ministry Begins Preparing Memo on Syrian Violations
Caretaker Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour revealed on Tuesday that his ministry is awaiting a report from the Army Command on the recent Syrian violations against Lebanon.
He said that the ministry is preparing the memo on the violations, which it will present to the Arab League.
In addition, he later contacted Lebanon's permanent representative at the United Nations Security Council Nawwaf Salam to request that he commence the necessary contacts with the concerned sides to prepare for an emergency meeting on Syrian refugees in Lebanon.
On the Lebanese nationals kidnapped in Nigeria, the minister said that no new developments have taken place in the case.
Imad al-Indari and Carlos Abu Aziz are among seven foreigners who were kidnapped in a deadly raid on a construction site in northern Nigeria in February.
The Islamist group Ansaru claimed responsibility for the abduction.
Two people were killed and four others wounded in when rockets fired from Syria landed in al-Qasr and Hosh al-Sayyed Ali regions in Lebanon on Sunday.
A ministerial security meeting held on Monday at the Baabda Palace to address the shelling agreed to file a complaint with the Arab League to ask for its assistance in confronting the attacks.
The deaths are not the first time that Lebanese citizens have been killed by cross-border fire coming from Syria. In February, at least one Lebanese man was killed by gunfire from the Syrian side of the border.
Since the Syrian uprising began in March 2011, there have been numerous deadly clashes along the northern and eastern borders of Lebanon, usually between the Syrian army and armed Syrian or Lebanese groups backing the uprising.
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