Wahhab to Suleiman: End US Mockery
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Tawhid movement Leader Wiam Wahhab urged Lebanese President Michel Suleiman on Saturday to instruct involved ministries to resolve the extended US decision to freeze his assets.
Wahhab said in his letter sent to Suleiman that "in the past four years, the state made no move in confronting the American piracy and the foreign ministry never asked the U.S. ambassador in what right Washington was intervening in Lebanon's internal affairs.
"I haven't seen any official asking (U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs) Ambassador Jeffrey Feltman, the king of piracy in the Middle East, in what right a government continues to take such measures," the former minister told the president.
Wahhab said that he and Suleiman shared the same support for the resistance and improved Lebanese-Syrian relations. "That's why I hope that you would instruct involved ministries in accordance with your constitutional rights to end this mockery that George Bush has inherited to Barack Obama."
On Thursday, U.S. President Barack Obama extended a freeze of assets on persons, including Wahhab.
A White House statement, extending the freeze imposed in 2007 by former President George Bush, said that "certain ongoing activities, such as continuing arms transfers to Hizbullah that include increasingly sophisticated weapons systems, serve to undermine Lebanese sovereignty."
Source: Natinal news Agncy
Tawhid movement Leader Wiam Wahhab urged Lebanese President Michel Suleiman on Saturday to instruct involved ministries to resolve the extended US decision to freeze his assets.
Wahhab said in his letter sent to Suleiman that "in the past four years, the state made no move in confronting the American piracy and the foreign ministry never asked the U.S. ambassador in what right Washington was intervening in Lebanon's internal affairs.
"I haven't seen any official asking (U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs) Ambassador Jeffrey Feltman, the king of piracy in the Middle East, in what right a government continues to take such measures," the former minister told the president.
Wahhab said that he and Suleiman shared the same support for the resistance and improved Lebanese-Syrian relations. "That's why I hope that you would instruct involved ministries in accordance with your constitutional rights to end this mockery that George Bush has inherited to Barack Obama."
On Thursday, U.S. President Barack Obama extended a freeze of assets on persons, including Wahhab.
A White House statement, extending the freeze imposed in 2007 by former President George Bush, said that "certain ongoing activities, such as continuing arms transfers to Hizbullah that include increasingly sophisticated weapons systems, serve to undermine Lebanese sovereignty."
Source: Natinal news Agncy
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