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U.S. ambassador to Syria: stop aid to Hezbollah

The U.S. has information that the Syrian government is transporting weapons and military equipment to Hezbollah, U.S. Ambassador to Syria Robert Ford told Radio Sawa Monday, as he urged the Syrian leadership to stop providing aid to the Lebanese resistance.

Ford expressed the U.S.’s concern over the relationship between Damascus and Hezbollah, adding the U.S. has information that Syria is transporting weapons and military equipment to Hezbollah.

“The American administration is asking Syria to stop [military] aid to Hezbollah immediately and to recognize Lebanon’s sovereignty on its land in line with friendly relations and respect for each country’s sovereignty,” Ford said.

Ford’s comments came during an interview with Radio Sawa, a U.S.-based radio station funded by the U.S. Congress and the Broadcasting Board of Governors. Ford also spoke about the unrest in Syria and urged the Syrian government to open lines of communications with the opposition and with Syrian society.

Syria has witnessed a series of protests since March 15, with demonstrators demanding reform in the tightly controlled Arab state. The unrest is the first of its kind on this scale in almost 50 years of monolithic Baath Party rule. Syrian military and security forces have carried out arrest sweeps, cracking down on protestors across the country.

Earlier this month the United States has imposed sanctions on three senior Syrian officials, Syria’s intelligence agency, and Iran’s Revolutionary Guard following U.S. President Barack Obama’s repeated appeals to the Syrian leadership to end the violent crackdown.

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Regardless of what the US says Hezbollah is a legitimate organisation and part of the political process in Lebanon and it's this attitude that the US adopt that tarnishes their country as it's extremely hyprocritical for US to tell Syria to stop supplying their interest in the region when they have been doing the same for decades as well as supporting rogue elements in Iran and Syria.
 
Regardless of what the US says Hezbollah is a legitimate organisation and part of the political process in Lebanon and it's this attitude that the US adopt that tarnishes their country as it's extremely hyprocritical for US to tell Syria to stop supplying their interest in the region when they have been doing the same for decades as well as supporting rogue elements in Iran and Syria.

I agree with you with the legitimacy of Hezbollah as a political movement and that no one has any business interfering with the will of the lebanese voters. However, the matter is different. It is about arms supplies. If that is happening then there is nothing legitimate about it because if Syria wants security of Lebanon then they should be helping the government and the army there. That would not give any government a right to comment. However arming Hezbollah is altogether different and is nowhere legitimate.
 

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