Denying news reported by a newspaper

Wednesday, 28 April 2021

The Army Command – Directorate of Orientation issued the following statement:
A local newspaper reported this morning that a meeting was held out of the media between LAF Commander in Chief General Joseph Aoun and the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to Lebanon Waleed el-Bukhari concerning an alleged conversation between them.
The Army Command would like to clarify that all meetings held by LAF Commander in Chief are published through official statements issued daily on the LAF official pages and that there has been no meeting with the Ambassador of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, as the newspaper claimed.
The Army Command reaffirms that it would welcome any meeting that supports the military institution especially in these exceptional circumstances.
The Army Command calls on the media to be careful in reporting news related to the military institution and to refer to it to corroborate the information before being published.