BEIRUT, June 13 (Xinhua) -- Lebanon's acting Director-General of General Security, Elias al-Baysari, said Tuesday that the country's decision to prevent Kuwaiti journalist Fajr Al-Saeed from entering Lebanon was not directed against Kuwait, the National News Agency reported.

Al-Baysari said that Lebanon is keen to preserve the best relations with its Arab neighbors and that the decision to prevent Al-Saeed from entering was made because she had previously visited Israel, a country that Lebanon considers to be an enemy.

"Any decision not to grant an entry visa is a sovereign decision, and Lebanon is not obliged to justify it, except within the diplomatic framework," al-Baysari said.

Al-Saeed, however, claimed on Twitter that the decision of the Lebanese General Security was due to her political views, which are opposed to Lebanon's Hezbollah Shiite party and in support of normalizing ties with Israel.

On the evening of June 7, Al-Saeed was halted at Beirut's Rafic Hariri International Airport. Lebanon's General Security declined a plea from Kuwaiti Embassy representatives to permit her to stay overnight before departing on the earliest flight to Kuwait. Enditem

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