Miqati Rejects to Hold 'Emergency' Cabinet Session over Situation in Syria
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Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Miqati expressed hope on Wednesday that an expected western strike on Syria doesn't occur, pointing out that he will not call on the cabinet to “urgently” convene to tackle the matter.
“We are advocates of peace and stability in the region,” Miqati said in comments published in As Safir newspaper.
On Tuesday, caretaker Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour said that the cabinet should convene to address “the dangerous situations although it is acting in caretaker capacity.”
“This dangerous situation requires an emergency meeting of the cabinet, or at least a ministerial meeting, to discuss the threats that are being launched against Syria and the possibility of a military strike against it and the direct repercussions on Lebanon,” Mansour said.
Miqati pointed out that if any western military intervention happened in neighboring Syria then he will act according to the circumstances.
“I will not call for an emergency cabinet session as the western strike didn't happen and we don't want to seem like we are marketing for it,” Miqati said.
U.S. forces are gearing up to strike Syria, though the West insists its goal is not regime change but to punish President Bashar Assad's government for unleashing chemical warfare on civilians.
The ground for a military intervention was laid out by U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, who for the first time said last week's attack, thought to have killed hundreds, could only have been perpetrated by Assad's forces.
Britain and France also moved to back the use of force in Syria, while the White House promised to provide declassified evidence this week to prove that the August 21 chemical attack was the work of regime forces.
28 August 2013, 11:32
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If Mansour is so concerned, why doesn't he go to Syria and assess the situation from there with his brilliant ideas. I guess lots of people are having sleepless nights counting Tomahawks instead of sheep.
28 August 2013, 17:55
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Syria is not worth it , If Lebanon will have emergency meeting it should be about Lebanon only not Syria, all this Time Berri kept parlament closed ,And FM Mansour did not do anything to protect Lebanon, Now they want to have an Emergency meeting,for Syria ,Lol lol lol loooooool.
28 August 2013, 15:55
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Once again, only a government of technocrats can save Lebanon from "self - destruct".
However, don't blame Israel for all of Lebanons's problems, she has caused quite a few herself.
28 August 2013, 19:39
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Lebanon is referred to as a male, so is Syria. These are the only two I that are referred to as males I think.
28 August 2013, 20:06
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Why doesn't that traitorous foreign minister call for an emergency meeting for what is going on in LEBANON. We have enough problems of our own to concern ourselves with them or any other country.
29 August 2013, 04:02
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Well, I'm not defending him at all in the slightest, but he is the foreign minister(pun intended) and therefor his area of focus is external affairs, by extension making his lack of calls for emergency meetings regarding internal issues which do not fall within his jurisdiction unremarkable.
29 August 2013, 14:36
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What might be really going on behind this so called stage act of democracy and human rights, is that it's all about resources. About eliminating resistance in the Middle East to the domination of Israel. This is likely to be a creation of the Rothschild family of Zionists in their aim to create a center for world power in the Middle East. This plan has been in place since before 9/11 to basically destroy all the cultures in the Middle East, take over the resources, and keep them from stopping the advance of a New World Government.
