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Sleiman commissions Mansour to deliver protest letter to Damascus

19-03-2013 | 05:50

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President Michel Sleiman commissioned Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour to deliver a protest letter to Damascus on the backdrop of Monday's border attacks on the Lebanese border. Sleiman described the attack as an "unacceptable violation of Lebanon's sovereignty."

Syrian fighter jets struck targets near the town of Arsal, Lebanon, according to Lebanon's state-run National News Agency.

U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland confirmed that Syrian warplanes and helicopters fired rockets into northern Lebanon, striking near Arsal.

"This constitutes a significant escalation in the violations of Lebanese sovereignty that the Syrian regime has been guilty of," Nuland said. "These kinds of violations of sovereignty are absolutely unacceptable.'

France also condemned a Syrian air raid into Lebanon, saying President Bashar al-Assad's forces had seriously violated the sovereignty of neighbouring Lebanon.

"The air raid carried out by the armed forces of the Syrian regime in Lebanese territory, in the Ersal area, constitutes a new and serious violation of Lebanon's sovereignty," foreign ministry spokesman Philippe Lalliot said in a statement.

France, which has troops in Lebanon as part of a U.N. peacekeeping force, is pushing its EU partners to lift an arms embargo on Syrian rebels.

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