Faisal Meqdad Stops at Beirut Airport before Heading to Syria
Syrian deputy Foreign Minister Faisal al-Meqdad on Tuesday stopped at Beirut's Rafik Hariri International Airport before heading to Syria by land, the state-run National News Agency reported.
“Al-Meqdad was coming from a three-days trip to Asia,” the NNA elaborated.
It added: "He then left to Syria by land."
On September 25, 2012, Syria's FM Walid al-Muallem and al-Moqdad landed at Beirut's international airport after their arrival on board a private jet.
The NNA remarked that they arrived at the airport amid strict security measures.
The two statesmen were heading to New York on board a regular flight through a layover in Germany.
Syria has been witnessing anti-regime protests since March 2011.
Some 30,000 people have been killed in the regime's violent crackdown against protesters and no Syrian official has visited Beirut since the eruption of the unrest.
Lebanese authorities have officially followed the policy to distance the country from the Syrian conflict. But they have also been reluctant to publicly blame either regime forces or rebel fighters for fire hitting villages and towns near the border with Syria.
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