Nidal

“You know what I did? I left troops to take the oil. I took the oil. The only troops I have are taking the oil, they’re protecting the oil. I took over the oil.”

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      Prime Minister Tammam Salam welcomed the formation of the Islamic coalition, saying: “Lebanon is at the forefront of the confrontation with terrorism.”
      “Any executive step required by Lebanon from the coalition will be studied and dealt with according to Lebanese constitutional and legal norms,” he added.
      But the Foreign Ministry decried that it “had no knowledge whatsoever of the issue of forming an Islamic anti-terror coalition.”
      It said it has not received “any memo or phone call mentioning this coalition.”
      The ministry “was neither consulted at the foreign level, as required by norms, nor domestically, as required by the Constitution,” it added.
      “The Ministry of Foreign Affairs emphasizes that this move undermines Lebanon’s distinguished stance on the definition of terrorism and the classification of terrorist organizations,” it said.
      “It also encroaches on the ministry’s constitutional jurisdiction on foreign affairs,” the ministry added, noting that Lebanon’s foreign policy “is part of the government’s policy and the Ministerial Policy Statement – in coordination and consultation with the prime minister.”
      There should be “internal consensus on this foreign policy,” the ministry stressed.