Lebanon's Minister of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants Abdullah Bouhabib, from New York, made a phone call to U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Dorothy Shea, in which he condemned the attack on the U.S. embassy. Minister Bouhabib emphasized the need to hold the perpetrators accountable and impose the harshest penalties on them, reaffirming Lebanon's commitment to ensuring the necessary protection for foreign diplomatic missions in accordance with the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.