Lebanese journalists to demonstrate against US intervention
Lebanese journalists will hold a demonstration in condemnation of US Ambassador to Beirut Dorothy Shea’s intervention in the country’s internal affairs following her comments against the Hezbollah resistance movement.
The Resistance Media Front released a statement on Sunday, where they called for the condemnation of the flagrant interference of the US envoy and President Donald Trump’s administration in Lebanon’s domestic affairs, the economic blockade imposed on the Arab country, designation of a section of the Lebanese society as terrorist, and attempt to sow discord among the nation, Arabic-language al-Ahed news website reported.
The report added that the protest will be held in an area in the southern suburbs of Beirut at 5:30 p.m. local time (1230 GMT) on Monday.
Back on June 28, Lebanese President Michel Aoun condemned the latest remarks against Hezbollah.
“The Americans are directly interfering in the Lebanese domestic affairs; and this is unacceptable,” Aoun said in an exclusive interview with Beirut-based and Arabic-language al-Mayadeen television news network at the time.
Lebanon’s Foreign Minister Nassif Hitti had already summoned Shea over her words.
Hitti met with the US Ambassador the following day to inform her that, under the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations of 1961, an Ambassador must not interfere in the domestic affairs of another country, and that her speech must not seek to pit Lebanese people against each other.
The Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations is an international treaty that defines a framework for diplomatic relations between countries.
In an interview with Saudi-owned al-Hadath television news network last week, Shea said Washington has “great concerns” over Hezbollah’s role in the Lebanese government.
Hezbollah’s growing popularity in the Arab and Muslim world after the resistance movement shattered the Israeli military’s myth of invincibility during the 33-day military offensive on Lebanon in the summer of 2006 has been a matter of serious concern for the Tel Aviv regime and its Western allies.
The resistance movement’s heroic defense as well as its vehement opposition to any foreign intervention in Lebanon’s domestic affairs has turned the group into a major stakeholder in the country’s political and military domains.
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