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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
March 14 Mulling Withdrawing Lebanon's Ambassador to Syria
2011-11-14
[An Nahar] The March 14
Those are the good guys, insofar as Leb has good guys...
forces are weighing the possibility of withdrawing Leb's Ambassador to Syria, Michel Khoury, in light of the Arab League
...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing...
's decision to suspend Syria's membership at the organization, reported the daily An Nahar on Sunday.

A prominent March 14 source told the daily that the forces are also mulling the possibility of suggesting the expulsion of the Syrian Ambassador to Leb, Ali Abdul Karim Ali.

The source slammed Lebanese Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour's position on the Arab decision saying that it expressed the opinion of the "Hizbullah government."

Furthermore, it said: "Through abstaining from voting on the decision, Iraq respected the sensitivities of its government with Syria and Iran, as well as the sensitivities of its internal scene."

Leb failed to take into consideration the different positions on its internal scene, it added.

"Where are they taking Leb after Mansour's decision not to recognize Arab decisions?" asked the source.

On Saturday, Leb voted against a decision taken by the Arab foreign ministers to suspend Syria's membership in the vaporous Arab League.

18 countries agreed to the decision, while Leb, Yemen and Syria voted against it and Iraq abstained.

Mansour told al-Manar television, hours after the decision was announced, that the "the resolution taken by the Arab League is dangerous, because it was taken against a member state."

"These decisions will not help solve the crisis in Syria but will push it towards a very critical stage," he stressed.

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