{"id":45151,"date":"2019-10-06T11:48:56","date_gmt":"2019-10-06T03:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=45151"},"modified":"2019-10-06T12:07:20","modified_gmt":"2019-10-06T04:07:20","slug":"lebanons-defence-minister-asks-for-more-military-cooperation-with-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=45151","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon&#8217;s Defence Minister Asks For More Military Cooperation With Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BEIRUT, Oct 6 (NNN-NNA) &#8211; Lebanese Defence Minister, Elias Bou Saab, emphasised the need to increase cooperation between the Lebanese and Syrian armies, to control the border in the Bekaa Valley and stop smuggling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I cannot start any direct dialogues with the Syrian authorities to increase cooperation, if the government does not make a decision in this regard,&#8221; Bou Saab said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He added that Syrian and Lebanese armies are deployed on the borders in the Bekaa Valley, to prevent smuggling but more efforts are needed in this area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, he said that, control on the northern borders with Syria is more advanced. &#8220;We can assure you that trucks cannot pass through these borders,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are several illegal borders in Lebanon that the government is trying to control, in a bid to stop smuggling of products and protect Lebanese merchants and producers.&#8211; NNN-NNA <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIRUT, Oct 6 (NNN-NNA) &#8211; Lebanese Defence Minister, Elias Bou Saab, emphasised the need to increase cooperation between the Lebanese and Syrian armies, to control the border in the Bekaa Valley and stop smuggling. &#8220;I cannot start any direct dialogues with the Syrian authorities to increase cooperation, if the government does not make a decision [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":45167,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[286,217,194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45151"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}