Suleiman: Rocket 'Messages' Can Not Change Our National Principles
President Michel Suleiman asserted on Friday that recurrent messages through anonymous rocket attacks on different areas in Lebanon will not change the national principles or convictions.
“No matter who the perpetrators behind the rocket attacks are and no matter what objective they have, these messages will not change our convictions,” said Suleiman in a statement released by the presidential palace.
He stressed that the “national principles stem from genuine belief in the nation's interest to distance the country from regional repercussions and to guarantee stability and unity among the Lebanese through commitment to the Baabda declaration.”
Two 107 mm rockets were fired on Thursday in the Baabda area, where the presidential palace is located, and investigations are ongoing to determine the perpetrators.
One of the rockets landed in the garden of the Freiha villa that is situated near the Officers' Club, while the second rocket landed near the Khashoqji castle in al-Yarzeh.
No injuries were reported.
In June, a Grad rocket fired from Ballouneh in Kesrouan district exploded after it hit an electricity line in the Monteverde valley.
The army found a second rocket at the launch site.
In May, two rockets hit Beirut's southern suburbs shortly after Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah made a speech defending his party's fighting in Syria.
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