Service Passports to Resolve Problem of Officials with Missions Abroad
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Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour said Thursday he would soon issue a “Service Passport” which would be used by its holder for a specific official mission abroad.
Mansour told An Nahar daily the passport would be given to officials with special missions in other countries on condition that they hand over the document to the ministry upon their return to Lebanon.
The minister’s remarks came after the newspaper said Monday authorities were receiving complaints that Special Passports were being granted to people not entitled to get them in contravention with the 1961 Vienna Convention that regulates diplomatic relations.
An Nahar said that Special Passports, which are restricted to ministers, current and former lawmakers and directors-general, were being granted to high-ranking military personnel, judges, advisors of ministers and even some journalists and clergymen.
President Michel Suleiman discussed the issue with Mansour upon the minister’s return from a visit to Moscow on Wednesday.
Mansour also held a telephone conversation with Speaker Nabih Berri who according to An Nahar had stirred the issue with Suleiman and Premier Najib Miqati lately.
22 March 2012, 09:52
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yeah, it will be given to the party of terror operatives and shias just as the special passport was being given to half the shia population in lebanon.
22 March 2012, 13:54
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ya 3ammeh, are you arnab Lebanese? To who's benefit you're fanatic comment would benefit?
22 March 2012, 19:55
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B.S is our government. We will not stand by while our country is destroyed. I don't know about you but 2013 I will not be fooled by a za3im come election time.
22 March 2012, 21:07
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Man I wonder how with such impolitness Naharnet still allows you to comment! you have the right to disagree with anyone but why such low quality insults? do you even remember what they taught you at school!!??
22 March 2012, 21:08
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ever heard of forged documents, this happens in any countries, I don't know about u but I am against any sectarism against Shiaa, sunna christians druze...
22 March 2012, 21:09
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ever heard of forged documents, this happens in any countries, I don't know about u but I am against any sectarism against Shiaa, sunna christians druze...
23 March 2012, 10:30
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bang right on the money @muwaten.....!!!!! Instead of those terrorists being arrested for 'supposedly" forging lebanese passports, and committing acts of violence in another arab state, they were paraded like heroes by the leader of the terror group. I agree those passports were issued with the full knowledge of the issuing authority in the same manner that wafiq safaa facilitated the escape of hisham al mousawi (who was caught with a manufacturing facility for narcotics)brother of the shia MP, by driving him straight onto the airport tarmac and onto a plane headed for Teheran.
