BEIRUT: Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea has criticized the Arab League monitoring mission in Syria as “disappointing.”

Geagea also strongly condemned the “idleness and irresponsibility” shown by the Lebanese government toward what he said were Syrian and Iranian violations of Lebanese sovereignty.

"It seems from their own report on the situation that Arab observers are either completely oblivious to the reality in Syria or are conspiring with the Syrian regime,” Geagea said in an interview published Monday by the French-language Lebanese daily L'Orient Le Jour.

He said the document presented to the Arab Foreign Ministers meeting in Cairo unfairly “places responsibility for the violence on both the Syrian government and opposition alike.”

“The observers have deviated from their mission," Geagea asserted, claiming that the reality in Syria is the “popular revolution which has shaken the country since March," and adding that the Free Syrian Army had resorted to force in the face of the regime's oppression.

The Arab League monitoring mission “must address the root of the problem and not its consequences,” Geagea maintained.