Muallem: Relation with Aoun, Others Good but Previous Equation Will Change
Damascus has a “good relation” with President Michel Aoun and other Lebanese forces but the “previous equation” of the relation with Lebanon “will change,” Syria's top diplomat has said.
“There is a good relation with President Aoun,” Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem said in an interview on Russia's RT television.
Told that Damascus “has always opened its doors to all components of the Lebanese society,” Muallem said: “This picture has now changed. We have good relations with President Aoun. We have good relations with Hizbullah, the AMAL Movement and other groups, but we will antagonize those who antagonize us.”
“The previous equation will change,” he stressed.
Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri has recently announced that the new government “will not be formed” should the Lebanese pro-Damascus camp “insist on restoring Lebanese-Syrian ties.”
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