US Interference in Leb. Raised Again: Is Sisson Lebanon's PM?

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Hussein Assi



20/02/2009
Once again, it's the US interference in Lebanon that imposes itself through… the US ambassador in the country, Michele Sisson!

Indeed, in a country that has transformed the ambassadors into "stars" who can tour around the various politicians and express their opinions over all internal and external issues, no one has the "force" to just criticize the US ambassador..

In a country where all international resolutions and agreements concerning the work of ambassadors, mainly the Vienna Accord, are violated, the US ambassador turns to be a political star who does not give any consideration to the international pacts and treaties…

In a country like Lebanon, it's very normal that the US ambassador becomes a "diplomat" by name but a "politician" with excellence by practice, and the strange thing comes out when the mentioned ambassador does not declare his own opinion regarding a topic from here or there…

Thus, it's not anymore strange to say that the US ambassador seeks to be the country's ruler, the one who dictates the country's general policies and interfere even in every little detail of the Lebanese internal affairs…

For all these reasons, the US Ambassador Michelle Sisson seems determined to continue interfering in Lebanese affairs, engaging in the internal conflicts and taking the side of one political bloc against another. Indeed, and after expressing her country's desire not to see Speaker Nabih Berri elected for another term, Sisson interfered lately in the issue of the Council for South Lebanon. The debate on the Council's budget has prevented the government from voting on the state's budget.

SAYYED IBRAHIM AMIN SAYYED: WHO'S LEBANON'S ACTING PM?

The head of Hezbollah's political council Sayyed Ibrahim Amin Sayyed raised the issue on Friday during a ceremony held in the southern suburb of Beirut to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of the Islamic Revolution in Iran.

Sayyed Ibrahim Amin Sayyed wondered who Lebanon's acting Prime Minister was. "Who's our acting PM? Is it Fouad Saniora or Michele Sisson?" Sayyed asked.

His eminence warned against the potential return of the so-called March 14 forces alongside the US administration to the previous policy of adopting the American tutelage in the Lebanese internal affairs.

MP HAJJ HASAN TO AL-MANAR: SILENCE TANTAMOUNT TO COLLUSION

Meanwhile, the member of the Loyalty to the Resistance parliamentary bloc MP Hussein Hajj Hasan criticized the US daily violations of the Lebanese sovereignty, pointing out that there were different forms of such violations.

Speaking to Al-Manar on Friday, Hajj Hasan noted that one of the forms of the US violations was the unscheduled visits of US officials, stressing that those visits were not even coordinated with the Lebanese Foreign Ministry. "Other forms of violations reside in the speeches of the US officials that extend to embrace the Lebanese electoral affairs.

The Hezbollah MP wondered what the stance of the "new sovereignty protectors" was, noting that silence to such violation was tantamount to deliberate and intentional collusion. He called on the Lebanese officials to put a limit to the ongoing status-quo since four years.

"For four years, their false allegations and speeches in support of the government .., have not succeeded in hiding the shameless collusion that facilitates American intervention in Lebanese affairs," Hajj Hasan emphasized, "most notably the July War, which had full American cover."

The MP said Senator John Kerry’s visit to Beirut earlier this week, which "happened independent of any coordination with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs," and subsequent media statements on the parliamentary elections confirmed that the US continued to meddle in Lebanese domestic affairs.

WAHHAB HOLDS LEB. AUTHORITIES RESPONSIBLE OF INTERFERENCE

For his part, Lebanese former minister Wiam Wahhab denounced fiercely the US daily interference in the Lebanese internal affairs, through the ambassador Michele Sisson.

Wahhab criticized Sisson's practices and held the Lebanese authorities responsible of the whole situation.

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