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Khaddam's Memoirs: Assad Defied Int'l Community and Extended Emile Lahoud's Term


Asharq Al-Awsat publishes excerpts from the late Syrian vice president’s memoirs.
Tuesday, 27 April, 2021 - 11:00
Assad meets with former Lebanese President Emile Lahoud in Beirut in October 1998. (Getty Images)
London - Asharq Al-Awsat
In this second episode of the memoirs of late former Syrian Vice President Abdel Halim Khaddam, Asharq Al-Awsat focuses on President Bashar al-Assad’s decision to extend the term of then-Lebanese President Emile Lahoud and efforts to persuade then prime minister, late Rafik Hariri, to agree to the extension.
“The Lebanese public opinion was divided between an overwhelming majority opposing the extension and a minority supporting it, in addition to total international rejection,” Khaddam wrote in his memoirs. ....

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