PSP Hits back at Muallem, Demands End of Syrian Meddling in Lebanon
Progressive Socialist Party media officer Rami Rayyes on Sunday responded to remarks by Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem that PSP leader Walid Jumblat should decide what he wants from Damascus.
"What the (PSP) party wants from Syria is an end to meddling in Lebanese affairs," Rayyes said in a television interview.
He stressed that the PSP had "never" stood in the way of establishing normal ties between Syria and Lebanon.
Muallem, in an interview with al-Jazeera satellite television, referred to his country”s relationship with the Druze chief, saying: "Jumblat has to decide what he wants, if he wishes to visit Syria we shall take that into consideration."
"We basically did not submit such a request," Rayyes confirmed.