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| Tueni to sue |
| 2005-12-18 |
| Ghassan Tueni, the father of the slain MP, on Friday said he would sue Syria's ambassador to the United Nations for derogatory comments about his son. The elder Tueni, a veteran Lebanese diplomat, accused Faysal Mekdad, Syria's ambassador to the UN, of comparing his son to a "dog" in comments reported on Wednesday by the US daily, The New York Sun. "I will sue him (Mekdad) before the American courts," Tueni, 79, said on Friday. In its report from UN headquarters in New York, the Sun quoted a diplomat who overheard a conversation between Mekdad and an Arab diplomat in which the derogatory comments were allegedly made. "So now every time that a dog dies in Beirut there will be an international investigation?" the paper reported Mekdad as saying to a colleague during a closed-door session. The diplomat who overheard and reported the conversation declined to be named, the US newspaper said. The Tueni-owned Al-Nahar newspaper said Mekdad had sent a letter to Tueni in which he "categorically denied" the comments attributed to him by the US daily. |
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