Foreign Affairs committee  I don't know if I was clear on this point.

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you very much. I indeed also appreciate that you invited me. I can try to send you a small memo about what we've said. I didn't write anything down very clearly, but I'll write down a clear memo and send it to you with some opinions about what we've said.

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you.

Foreign Affairs committee  Let me start by clarifying one point. The Christians, the Druze, and all the minorities in Syria are not in power. Those who are in power actually are only the Alawites, the confessional group of Bashar al-Assad. They are controlling all the others. I would like to remind all pre

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes. There is only one peaceful solution, which is to remove Bashar al-Assad and the Ba'ath regime.

Foreign Affairs committee  I don't know if you have peaceful means to remove Bashar al-Assad, but it's the only way to get a solution in this country.

Foreign Affairs committee  Certainly. Thank you. First, I would like to thank you for your kind words and tell you that you will always be welcome in Lebanon. You asked me whether the conflict in Syria had repercussions for politics and the economy in Lebanon. The fact is that in Lebanon, politics is rea

Foreign Affairs committee  I'm sorry, I didn't hear what you said.

Foreign Affairs committee  Sure. Iran has been funding Hezbollah for the last 20 years, militarily and economically—all the support. This is why it doesn't want to lose Syria, in order to keep the link present between Hezbollah and Iran and its funding.

Foreign Affairs committee  Until now, I don't think it has changed a lot. However, we've heard a lot of declarations from the Iranian representatives that in the case where Syria will be targeted by the international community or by international forces, it will enter into war. It's a declaration of the Ir

Foreign Affairs committee  I don't really think it has influenced President Assad. It makes him maybe only more savage and makes for more terror. He doesn't have anything more than using all of his means in order to eliminate all kinds of revolution.

Foreign Affairs committee  No, we haven't requested that. We have many more important problems, actually. We are facing security problems. We are facing assassination problems. As you know, the last assassination, which happened 15 days ago, removed all kinds of security levels against all kinds of assassi

Foreign Affairs committee  Can you repeat the question?

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes, exactly. This is what they are trying to do. They are trying to export their conflict to the Lebanese one. They've tried several times. The main concrete example was when President Assad requested, not officially but directly, that our ex-minister, Mr. Michel Samaha, trans

Foreign Affairs committee  First, there is no official number, and we cannot have an official number. The only way we know, and the only way it became official, that Hezbollah was fighting in Syria was when they buried several Hezbollah fighters and said they were martyrs. No war zone was declared in Leban