Damascus: Our Stance From The Next Lebanese Cabinet Built on Relations With the Resistance and Us
Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal al-Miqdad said his country”s stance concerning the next Lebanese government would be built on two factors: first how this government would deal with Syria and bilateral relations, and second on the manner in, which the Lebanese government would handle the issue of Hizbullah”s arms.
Miqdad added: "we see a necessity for Lebanon to have such arms in face of the Israeli occupation."
The Syrian official who was speaking Thursday in Damascus at a political symposium that included university professors said: "the disclosure of the Israeli espionage networks, in addition to the recent publishing by the German magazine Der Spiegel clearly points that those that committed the assassination of Lebanon”s ex-premier Rafik Hariri wanted to damage inter-Arab and Lebanese-Syrian relations."