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After the United States Treasury imposed sanctions on Minister Gebran Bassil, the Lebanese Presidency confirms that President Aoun will request from Washington the evidence and documents that led to the imposition of these sanctions.
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Minister Bassil during his meeting with President Aoun
The Lebanese presidency confirmed that President Michel Aoun will request from Washington evidence and documents that led to the imposition of sanctions on Gebran Bassil.
The Lebanese Presidency indicated that it is necessary to hand over the documents to the Lebanese judiciary so that it can take the necessary legal measures.
In the details, the President of the Republic, General Michel Aoun, asked the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates of the interim government, Charbel Wahba, to make the necessary contacts with the US embassy in Beirut and the Lebanese embassy in Washington, to obtain the evidence and documents that led the U.S. Treasury to press charges and impose sanctions against the president. The Free Patriotic Movement, former minister, MP Gebran Bassil.
He stressed that “these evidences must be delivered to the Lebanese Judicial Power in order for it to take the necessary legal measures to do so,” and indicated that “it will directly follow up on this case, giving rise to the necessary trials in the event that there is data on these charges “.
On Friday, the US Treasury announced that Washington had imposed sanctions on the head of the Free Patriotic Movement and former Lebanese Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil.
In response to the US sanctions decision, Bassil said on his Twitter page: “Neither the sanctions scared me nor the promises seduced me.”
Neither the punishments scared me nor the promises attracted me.
I will not turn against any Lebanese …
I will not save myself to destroy Lebanon.
I got used to injustice and learned from our history: In this East we were prescribed to carry our cross every day … to survive. GB– Gebran Bassil (@Gebran_Bassil) November 6, 2020
For its part, Hezbollah declared its support for the Free Patriotic Movement and its leader, and its national, moral and human solidarity with him.
In a statement, Hezbollah condemned the declaration of the decision of the United States Department of the Treasury against the leader of the Free Patriotic Movement, Minister Gebran Bassil, considering that “the decision is purely political and a blatant and shameless interference in Lebanese internal affairs. “.
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