French police stopped former Lebanese premier Michel Aoun from addressing a meeting of MEPs this week

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Series Details 23/05/96, Volume 2, Number 21
Publication Date 23/05/1996
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Date: 23/05/1996

They prevented the anti-Syrian Christian hardliner from travelling to Strasbourg to speak to the Parliament's Mediterranean Intergroup on the grounds that the terms of his political asylum in France precluded him from attending public events. MEPs later complained that the action violated the institution's extraterritorial status.

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