Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdullah Bou Habib revealed that his country had received "alerts and warnings from a number of Western countries", after the arrival of a ship loaded with flour and barley, flying the Syrian flag, to the port of Tripoli last Wednesday.
The minister said, in an exclusive interview with the BBC, that the concerned authorities in Lebanon are currently examining the ship, without being able so far to determine the source of the materials it is carrying, stressing that the government will take the appropriate decision later.
The Ukrainian embassy in Beirut confirmed yesterday evening, the presence of a "Syrian ship covered by the sanctions, anchored in the Lebanese port of Tripoli, carrying stolen Ukrainian barley and flour."
Today, the embassy issued a statement saying that it was looking into the "legal consequences" of the matter, in light of what it described as "developments related to the unloading of Ukrainian wheat cargo in the port of Tripoli, and in light of the scarcity of wheat stocks in Lebanon."
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