{"id":117,"date":"2005-01-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-10-01T20:26:49","modified_gmt":"2010-10-01T20:26:49","slug":"lebanon-accuses-france-us-of-meddling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/lebanon-accuses-france-us-of-meddling\/","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon Accuses France, US of Meddling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><BR><br \/>\n<P dir=rtl style=\"DIRECTION: rtl; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt; unicode-bidi: embed; TEXT-ALIGN: left; mso-line-height-rule: exactly\"><br \/>\n<span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; color: #4900C8; font-family: Arial\"> BEIRUT &#8211; AFP<\/SPAN><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: Arial\"><br \/>\nPrime Minister Omar Karameh has launched a scathing attack against the ambassadors of France and the United States, accusing them of meddling in Lebanon&#8217;s domestic affairs, the press reported Thursday<br \/>\n<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/p>\n<p>France and the United States sponsored a UN resolution opposed by Lebanon&#8217;s Syrian-backed government which calls for an end to foreign interference and the withdrawal of foreign troops, in a clear message to Damascus. <BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our national dignity is violated each time we receive one of these ambassadors,&#8221; Damascus protege Karameh said in remarks the Lebanese press said were clearly directed to the US and French diplomats.<br \/>\n&#8220;This interference in our internal affairs is shameful and unacceptable, and there is not one Lebanese who can accept such insolence,&#8221; he said in a speech at a Sunni Muslim community centre. <BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/p>\n<p>Karameh lashed out at UN Security Council Resolution 1559 which he branded &#8220;a proposal for sedition&#8221; that his country would continue to oppose. &#8220;We will not stab Syria in the back,&#8221; he pledged.<br \/>\nUS Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage made a fresh appeal last week for Syria to end its military presence in Lebanon.<br \/>\n<BR><br \/>\n<BR><br \/>\nResolution 1559 was a clear message to Damascus, which dominates the political scene in its smaller neighbour and has about 14,000 troops stationed there.<br \/>\nAlso last week, the US embassy issued a statement that Washington and its allies would closely watch the election contest between the pro- and anti-Syrian camps for the legislative polls due in May.<br \/>\n<\/SPAN><\/P><\/p>\n<p><BR><br \/>\n<P class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: left\" align=left><br \/>\n<span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 8pt; font-family: Arial; color: black\"><br \/>\n13-1-2005 <\/SPAN><BR><br \/>\n<SPAN style=\"FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: #4900dc; FONT-FAMILY: 'Estrangelo Edessa'\">&#1826;&#1815;&#1834;&#1821;&#1808; <\/SPAN><\/P><br \/>\n<BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIRUT &#8211; AFP Prime Minister Omar Karameh has launched a scathing attack against the ambassadors of France and the United States, accusing them of meddling in Lebanon&#8217;s domestic affairs, the press reported Thursday France and the United States sponsored a UN resolution opposed by Lebanon&#8217;s Syrian-backed government which calls for an end to foreign interference &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-assyrian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}