Syrian Envoy Resigns on TV, or Perhaps It Was Impostor
World News • June 2011 • Views: 630
A woman identifying herself as the Syrian ambassador to France announced her resignation by telephone on French television Tuesday evening, in what would be the first such defection from the government of President Bashar al-Assad in months of unrest.
But Syrian state television and Al Arabiya television both followed by broadcasting telephone denials in Arabic from someone they identified as the ambassador, Lamia Shakkour, who said the France24 news channel had been taken in by an impostor.