Lebanon demonstrates political will not to give way to provocations: Shahan Kandaharian

YEREVAN, JULY 11, ARMENPRESS: The responsibility for the explosion, occurred in the southern district of Beirut on July 9, was not assumed to any organization or party, though there is an opinion that the incident is a domestic Lebanese or a domestic Islamist conspiracy. This was stated by the Editor-in-Chief of Azdak Daily Shahan Kandaharian in the conversation with Armenpress. “The incident is in the background of the Shia-Sunni tension in the entire region. There will be forces, which will try to use the Syrian War to raise the tension. At the same time there is also a political will not to give way to provocations”, - said Shahan Kandaharian.

The Editor-in-Chief of Azdak Daily emphasized as well that the incidents and collisions in Lebanon are not of All-Lebanese nature.

The number of the wounded in the result of the explosion occurred on July 9 in the southern district of Beirut has reached 38. The anonymous source of the local law-enforcement bodies supposed that the Jabhat al-Nusra grouping extremists stand beyond the explosion, who fight in Syria on the side of the rebels.

The Armenian community in Beirut did not suffer damage from the clashes ongoing in Lebanon. On June 23 a war situation was created in the Southern Lebanon, when the Islamist groupings attacked the Lebanese army. In the result of the collision the army gave wounded and killed. On June 24 the armed Islamists opened sniper shots towards the streets of the Southern capital of Lebanon.