The United Arab Emirates (UAE) condemned on Thursday the killing of Lebanese lawmaker Antoine Ghanem in a car bomb attack in Beirut which also killed at least four others, the official Emirates News Agency reported.
"The UAE condemns in the strongest of terms this criminal act," UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan was quoted as saying.
Sheikh Abdullah called "all Lebanese people to foil the criminal perpetrators' attempts by exercising self-restraint, closing their ranks, resuming their national dialogue as well as completing the constitutional process ahead of the upcoming presidential elections."
He also offered consolation to Ghanem's family, the families of the other victims of the attack as well as to the Lebanese people.
Ghanem, the Lebanese Christian lawmaker, was killed Wednesday along with at least four others by an explosion in the Sin el-Fil district, a Christian suburb.
Other media reports give contradicting number of the victims in the blast.
The explosion took place just a week before a parliament meeting due to be held on September 25, during which a new head of state will be elected to replace the incumbent President Emile Lahoud.
Source: Xinhua
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