President Michel Sleiman requested that Justice Minister Ibrahim Najjar takes the appropriate judicial measures regarding Internal Security Forces (ISF) Director General Achraf Rifi for not implementing Interior Minister Ziad Baroud’s order to withdraw from the second floor of the Telecommunications Ministry building in Adliyeh.
Sleiman also reiterated Lebanon’s support to UNIFIL which maintains peace and works to implement UN Security Council Resolution 1701, according to a statement issued by the president’s press office on Monday.
During his meeting with UNIFIL Commander General Alberto Asarta Cuevas, Sleiman condemned the explosion that targeted a UNIFIL convoy last week and voiced hope that those injured will recover soon.
“The security forces, particularly the army, will not deal lightly with terrorism,” the president added.
On Thursday, Telecommunications Minister Charbel Nahhas said in a press conference that ISF units had illegally occupied a building owned by his ministry in Adliyeh.
Baroud abdicated his ministerial duties after the ISF members did not withdraw from the building upon his request. The building was handed to the Lebanese army on Friday.
Six Italian peacekeepers were wounded - two of them seriously - along with two civilians in a roadside bomb explosion targeting a UN patrol along a highway in south Lebanon on Friday.
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