Protesters attack Lebanese embassy in Libya: Ambassador

TRIPOLI, Libya (AA) – Libyan protesters have attacked the Lebanese embassy in Tripoli, causing limited damage, Lebanese Ambassador to Libya Mohammad Sukaina said Monday.</p> <p>The incident comes one day after supporters of Lebanon’s Shia Amal movement reportedly removed Libyan flags from outside a Beirut convention center to register their opposition to the North African country’s participation in an upcoming economic summit. </p> <p>Sukaina was quoted by Lebanese media as saying that angry mobs had converged at the embassy’s main gate, where they tore down the Lebanese flag and replaced it with a Libyan one.</p> <p>The incident caused only minor damage while no embassy staff were harmed, the ambassador said, noting that protesters had failed to breach the embassy building itself.</p> <p>Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, who is also the leader of Lebanon’s Amal movement, reportedly objects to Libya’s participation in an upcoming Beirut-hosted Arab Economic and Social Development Summit, citing the country’s lack of a functioning government.</p> <p>On Sunday, Libyan Foreign Minister Mohamed Taher Siala said his country would not send delegates to the summit, which is slated to convene this weekend.</p> <p>Speaking to the media on Monday, however, Sukaina said he had not yet been informed as to whether or not Libya would send representatives to the event.</p> <p>“The issue still needs some time to be resolved,” he was quoted as saying.</p> <p>The ambassador, however, went on to note that the removal of the Libyan flags from the summit venue in Beirut had caused “resentment and anger” on the Libyan street.</p> <p>Berri and his Amal movement are opposed to Beirut maintaining relations with Tripoli, citing the 1978 disappearance in Libya of Amal founder Imam Musa Sadr along with two companions.</p> <p>Amal has continued to blame Sadr’s disappearance — which remains unexplained to this day — on former Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi, who was ousted and killed in 2011 in a bloody NATO-backed uprising.

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