Jumblat Snubs Russia Over Jailed Generals

by **Admin** Thu Apr 10, 2008 6:47 am

Progressive
Socialist Party (PSP) leader Walid Jumblat Wednesday snubbed Russia
over remarks made by its U.N. ambassador concerning four ex-generals
detained in connection with the Hariri murder.

Jumblat,
in a statement distributed by the state-run National News Agency (NNA),
said the Russian diplomat "probably didn't realize the accomplishments
of the suppressive police network that had toppled all the foundations
of the democratic regime in Lebanon."

"Security
lacking justice and democracy is not enough," Jumblat told Russian
President Vladimir Putin, recalling a charge that the so-called
security network had been "flagrantly involved in political
assassinations."

He
expressed hope that Russia, "which had backed Lebanon's "sovereignty
and independence and participated in financing the international
tribunal, would maintain its stand in supporting justice in political
assassinations committed in Lebanon, the serial of which started by the
Syrian regime's assassination of Kamal Jumblat" in 1977.