UN Requests to Use Qlaiat Airport, Lebanon Refuses
"An-Nahar" Lebanese daily reported Wednesday that "Lebanese authorities have refused to allow UN observers to land in the Qlaiat airport in the North."
According to the newspaper, "the UN requested to use the airport under the pretext that it will provide the observers with a quick access to Syrian hot areas as Homs which is at close proximity to the airport."
"The airport could be used for the possible evacuation of casualties," the UN requested.
The report further clarified that "the Lebanese decision to refuse the international request came over fears that the airport could be used as a humanitarian corridor to aid those in need in Syria, which Lebanon had rejected as part of its policy in distancing itself from the Syrian crisis."
Source: An-Nahar, Translated and Edited by moqawama.org
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