Beirut / Cairo – Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit said the deployment of USS Cole warship off Lebanon’s coast “is an indicator to possible repercussions of the Lebanese crisis.” “We should strip foreign powers of their ability to interfere in Lebanese affairs by implementing the Arab initiative for electing a new president and creating [...]
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United States on Friday shrugged off Hizbullah’s criticisms of the deployment of a U.S. warship to waters off Lebanon and insisted the show of force meant to promote stability.
“On Hizbullah’s concerns, I would express some of our own concerns with Hezbollah’s actions. So I’ll just leave it at that,” White House national security [...]
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Beirut / Paris – France disclosed today that it was informed of US decision to send US warship USS Cole off the coast of Lebanon and that the French government neither supported the US action nor objected against it
Pascale Andreanim a spokeswoman of the French Foreign Ministry told reporters “We were notified that the [...]
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US: Warships on routine mission to support stability
Friday, 29 February, 2008 @ 6:19 PM
Beirut – US Charge d’Affaires Michele J. Sison told Lebanon’s Prime Minister Fouad Siniora today that the American ships in the eastern Mediterranean are on routine mission to support regional stability.
Sison ( pictured) stressed that the ships are in International waters [...]
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