Syria congratulates Saad

Gregg Carlstrom | November 12, 2009 7:07 AM | 0 | recommend (0) |   |      

Mohammed Naji Otri, Syria's prime minister, sent a message to Lebanese prime minister Saad Hariri today, congratulating him on forming a new cabinet. This is the first message from Syria to Hariri -- who ran, after all, on an anti-Syrian platform, and blames the Syrian government for his father's assassination in 2005.

Hariri is expected to make a trip to Syria soon. Lebanon's president, Michel Sleiman, already did; he met with Syrian president Bashar al-Assad yesterday.

Sleiman and Assad

I've said this before, but the people meeting with Assad in this particular room -- sitting in those particualr chairs -- always appear to be in physical pain, don't they?

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Categories: Diplomacy, Lebanon, Politics, Regional News, Syria

Tags: Bashar al-Assad, Michel Sleiman, Mohammed Naji Otri, Saad Hariri

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