Shohaieb Slams Qatar

MP Akram Shohaieb on Friday criticized Qatar for withdrawing its contingent serving with U.N. Peacekeepers in south Lebanon saying it contradicts Arab efforts to salvage Lebanon.

 

Shohaieb, a member of Walid Jumblat”s Progressive Socialist Party, said timing of the Qatari move, which had not been announced in advance, raises many questions.

 

“It coincided with an Arab Initiative backing of which is a duty because it exits Lebanon from its ongoing political crisis,” Shohaieb said in a statement distributed by the state-run National News Agency.

 

Did the Qatari Move “signal the beginning of a regional plan to finish off UNSCR 1701, or it signals the beginning of a security era that follows aborting the Arab initiative?” he asked.

 

“Such questions await answers from a state (Qatar) that we had hoped it would be in harmony with Lebanon, not with the Syrian criminal regime,” Shohaieb added.