AMERICAN LEBANESE COORDINATION COUNCIL

Kouchner Cancels Meeting With Moallem

Posted in NEWS & ANALYSIS by Administrator on the September 27th, 2007
French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said Wednesday that he was canceling a scheduled meeting with his Syrian counterpart Walid Moallem because he was “shocked” by last week’s assassination of a Lebanese anti-Syrian MP.

    “I was extremely shocked by this latest assassination …I felt that I should not meet my counterpart as had been planned,” he told reporters on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly session.

    Syria last Saturday rejected as “baseless and without proof” accusations by Lebanon’s ruling coalition that Damascus was behind the killing of Lebanese MP Antoine Ghanem.

    The anti-Syrian MP was killed by a car bomb in a Beirut suburb.(AFP)
Beirut, 26 Sep 07

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