The Ambassador of the
United Nations High Commission on Human Rights (UNHCR) to the Middle East,
Haitham Abu Saeed, visited on Wednesday the Syrian ambassador to Lebanon and
reviewed with him the latest developments.
The commission’s press
office said in a statement that Abu Saeed also discussed with Ali Abdel Karim
Ali the issue of the Lebanese Shia pilgrims who were kidnapped in Syria’s
Aleppo and “condemned this terrorist act.”
Eleven Lebanese Shia
pilgrims were abducted in Aleppo in May while returning from Iran. Last week, a
previously unknown armed group calling itself the "Syrian
Revolutionaries—Aleppo Province" said that it was holding the group.
Moreover, the two men
touched on the massacre that rocked the Syrian town of Houla and generated
international outcry.
The statement added that Abu Saeed congratulated Syria for its new prime minister.
The statement added that Abu Saeed congratulated Syria for its new prime minister.
The Houla massacre, which
Damascus blamed on "armed groups," stoked the expulsion of top Syrian
diplomats from several Western countries, according to AFP.
President Bashar al-Assad
appointed Agriculture Minister Riad Hijab as premier on Wednesday, after
Syria's new parliament was elected on May 7 in a vote boycotted by opposition
groups and dismissed by Washington as a "farce,” according to AFP.
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