The head of the Support of Lebanese in Detention and Exile Organization in Lebanon (SOLIDE) Ghazi Aad called for the cancellation of the current Lebanese-Syrian committee and the formation of a new committee according to international standards.

“Since 2005, the Lebanese-Syrian committee has failed to reach solutions,” Aad commented on Saturday in a press conference held at Gebran Khalil Gebran Square, Downtown-Beirut

 “Syria has badly dealt with Lebanese issues in general and with the detainees issue in particular. Its continuous denial resulted in catastrophic mistakes,” he added.

Aad expressed his “disappointment with Syria’s attempt to come out after 30 years as the victim, at the time when it was the one to illegally arrest the Lebanese and hide their destinies and whereabouts, which makes them outside the protection of the law.”

In reference to what Syrian External Affairs Minister Walid Mouallem had said; Aad commented, “we have never linked between the missing persons and the detainees in Syria. SOLID has always had its information about the Lebanese convicted in Syria according to criminal laws, not to forget the exceptional courts they faced.”

 “All discussions about the reopening of collective sanctuaries in Lebanon and searching in the sea and among those given to Israel is an internal Lebanese affair and no one has the right to interfere in,” Aad concluded.

-NOW Staff