Lebanese defense minister highlights relations with Syria

Lebanese Defense Minister, Abdul-Rahim Murad hailed the distinguished fraternal ties linking Syria and Lebanon and the two tracks concomitance. "Syria's role in Lebanon was and is still a saver role that offered a lot of sacrifices to stop the civil war." Murda said during opening the Arab Book Exhibition yesterday at the International Lebanese University.

" We support Syria's steadfastness, reject the foreign intervention in our affairs," Murad said pointing out that the UN resolution 1559, backed by Israel, is a clear bid to violate our national unity and to damage our civil peace. He indicated that the atrocious crime which claimed the life of former prime minister Rafic Hariri targeted Lebanon's stability and unity calling for unveiling the surrounding conditions of this crime.