Naharnet - Jumblat Snubs Russia Over Jailed Generals, 10 April 2008
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.
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