Lebanon asks Canada to remove Hizbullah from its blacklist

It was officially announced in Beirut that Lebanon has officially asked Canada to remove the name of the Hizbullah Party from its black list of the organizations accused of practicing terrorism.

The secretary general of the Lebanese foreign ministry Muhammad Issa conveyed this Lebanese request to the Canadian charge de affairs in Lebanon, stressing that the criterion on which Toronto built its decision concerning the Hizbullah Party do not have any bases.

The Lebanese official explained to the Canadian diplomat that Hizbullah party handed over the Lebanese foreign ministry a recording for the speech made by the party's secretary general Hassan Nasrullah. The speech in which Canada based its decision on, considering that the Hizbullah party commends the "suicide operations against the Israeli civilians."

However, Nasrullah said "If the Israelis destroy al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, all Muslims and all the Palestinians will destroy by the bloods of the martyrs the Zionist entity." The Lebanese official explained to the Canadian diplomat that the "translation which Canada used to announce Hizbullah as a violator of the International Law "was incorrect translation." One of the Hizbullah party representative at the Lebanese parliament Ali Ammar had handed over on Monday a recording os Nasrullah's speech.

Worthy mentioning that the Canadian government announced on December 11 that it added the name of the Hizbullah party to the list of organizations suspected of supporting terrorism and banned it in Canada.

Earlier Canada had banned only the military wing of the Hizbullah party to work on its territories, while special sides concerned with humanitarian aids of the party were permitted to practice its activities in Canada to raising funds and donations for the party.