Assad to Aoun: Syria Concerned with Supporting Lebanon”s Christians, Army, Hariri Cabinet
Concerned with support for Lebanese Army, Hariri Cabinet Success Syrian President Bashar Assad said Damascus is concerned with protecting the Christian role in Lebanon, the Levant and the Arab world.
Syria "is also concerned with providing support for the (Lebanese) military institution and with the success of the Lebanese government," Assad told visiting Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun.
Aoun is in Syria to offer condolences to Assad over the death of his younger brother, Majd.
As-Safir daily said Assad also renewed his invitation to Aoun and his family to spend a weekend with him "at the earliest possible opportunity."