{"id":51966,"date":"2019-11-25T14:08:33","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T06:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=51966"},"modified":"2019-11-25T14:17:07","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T06:17:07","slug":"russian-envoy-warns-against-tragic-end-of-protests-in-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=51966","title":{"rendered":"Russian Envoy Warns Against &#8220;Tragic End&#8221; To Protests In Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BEIRUT, Nov 25 (NNN-NNA) &#8211; Russian Ambassador to Lebanon, Alexander Zasypkin, warned against a &#8220;tragic end&#8221; of the protests in Lebanon, NBN local TV Channel reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Protesters and the authorities must reach an agreement urgently, to prevent these festive protests from reaching a catastrophic end,&#8221; Zasypkin said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zasypkin emphasised the need to discuss the demands of protesters, to avoid further accumulation of social and economic problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;People should unite and start a dialogue with President Michel Aoun, to find solutions to the current crises,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Aoun has been calling on protesters to meet with him for an open dialogue, to reach an agreement with regard to their demands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, protesters insist on staying in the streets before they reach a complete modification of the political system, while referring corrupt politicians to courts for trial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nationwide protests in Lebanon led to the resignation of Prime Minister, Saad Hariri&#8217;s government, for its inability to implement serious reform measures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A new government is expected to be formed, to undertake serious economic reforms.&#8211; NNN-NNA  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIRUT, Nov 25 (NNN-NNA) &#8211; Russian Ambassador to Lebanon, Alexander Zasypkin, warned against a &#8220;tragic end&#8221; of the protests in Lebanon, NBN local TV Channel reported. &#8220;Protesters and the authorities must reach an agreement urgently, to prevent these festive protests from reaching a catastrophic end,&#8221; Zasypkin said. Zasypkin emphasised the need to discuss the demands [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":51969,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209,217,194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51966"}],"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=51966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}