NNA - Caretaker Minister of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants, Dr. Abdallah Bou Habib, currently on an official visit to New York, on Thursday contacted by phone US Ambassador to Lebanon, Dorothy Shea, to whom he vehemently condemned the attack on the US embassy in Awkar. 

Minister Bou Habib stressed the need to hold the perpetrators accountable and impose harshest penalties against them, highlighting “Lebanon’s commitment to ensuring the necessary protection for foreign diplomatic headquarters in accordance with the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.”

==========R.H.