Syrian Diplomat Lauds Lebanese Stance, Shrugs Off March 14 Criticism
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
A Syrian diplomatic source said Damascus has appreciated the stance taken by Lebanon at the meeting of the Arab foreign ministers in Cairo last Saturday.
The source told al-Joumhouria daily published on Thursday that the Lebanese position expressed the common vision of the two countries.
Lebanon has voted against an Arab League decision to suspend Syria’s membership. The move was criticized by the March 14-led opposition and Western and Gulf Cooperation Council countries.
Syria welcomes Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Miqati’s announcement that he coordinated with President Michel Suleiman and Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour the Lebanese position, the source said.
Miqati said in a statement that “the Lebanese stance at the Cairo meeting was taken after intensive consultations that took into consideration the Lebanese interest first.”
It is not surprising for the opposition parties to criticize the Lebanese government’s stance, the source told the newspaper, saying that Damascus has gotten used to such moves.
“The integration of Syria and Lebanon … won’t be perplexed by voices that come from here and there,” he added.
17 November 2011, 12:02
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what did you expect? this is simply the master patting his pupil for good behavior :)
17 November 2011, 14:13
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This Syrian/Iranian puppet Government of profeteers, traitors, criminals, and terrorists should be brought down sooner rather than later, before it inflicts more damage that could be irresversible. The Assad Criminal regime is on the verge of total collapse and the Iranian regime will not survive for long either....
17 November 2011, 15:56
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The Lebanese position was symptomatic of the vacuum in Lebanese political leadership and the absence of courage to speak truth to power. The Lebanese body politic is occupied by Hezbollah and the vote taken, though in Lebanon's name was in Hezbollah's voice.
No state voluntarily ties its fate to that of a pariah state so as to share the world's opprobium with it; so as to jeopardize the fate of the country by tying it to the fate of a condemned regime.
