Secretary-General Nayef Falah Mubarak al-Hajraf said in a statement that he “rejects and denounces what was stated by the Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Lebanese caretaker government, Charbel Wehbe, during a TV interview and the disgraceful insults against the Gulf Cooperation Council states and their peoples, as well as the insult against the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.”
The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) secretary-general called on the Lebanese foreign minister to issue an official apology to the council’s member states “for the unacceptable offences that came from him.”
Al-Hajraf stressed, on Tuesday, “the firm and established positions taken by the Gulf Cooperation Council countries to support the brotherly Lebanese people, those stances which are witnessed in history and which aim at Lebanon’s safety and support for its stability and security,” stressing that these statements are inconsistent with the simplest diplomatic norms and are not consistent with relations. The historical period between the GCC countries and Lebanon, according to the Saudi Press Agency, “SPA”.
He also called on Wahba to present an official apology to the Gulf Cooperation Council states and their peoples for the unacceptable abuse that occurred.
This comes after Wahba said in a television interview published on Monday: “The countries of love, friendship and brotherhood brought us the Islamic State and planted it in the Nineveh plains, Anbar and Palmyra.
When asked whether he meant “those countries” of the Gulf states, Wehbe said that he did not want to mention names, and added, in response to a question about whether the Gulf states funded the organization: “Who financed them then, me?”
Before the interview ended, Wahba left the studio, objecting to the Saudi guest, political analyst Salman Al-Ansari, attacking the Lebanese President, Michel Aoun, saying, “I am in Lebanon and one of the Bedouins insults me.”
These statements caused a sensation in Lebanon and the Gulf states, and earlier on Tuesday, the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs summoned the Lebanese ambassador in Riyadh to express the Kingdom’s rejection and denunciation of the Lebanese Foreign Minister’s comments.
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