Lebanon calls for immediate end to Syrian crisis

Lebanese Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour said Wednesday upon his country’s accession to the presidency of the Arab Foreign Ministers Council that Beirut "will seek to find a solution for the bloody Syrian crisis." "It is worth mentioning that the bloodshed has not stopped in Syria, which is a founding state of the Arab League and a brethren neighbor of Lebanon," the National News Agency quoted Mansour as saying. He also called for reaching an immediate compromise Lebanon on the Syrian crisis. "We consider expediting a compromise for the Syrian crisis to be a national and ethical duty." Mansour also said that Lebanon would work to "return the Arabs’ right in Palestine and the right of the Palestinian people to return home and found their independent state Lebanon heads the 138th session of the Arab Foreign Ministers Council for a period of six months.