UN ambassador slams Israeli violations of 1701

by via Daily Star, Lebanon

Fri, Jul 25, 2008 8:01AM

Thursday, July 24, 2008 : BEIRUT: Lebanon's Ambassador to the UN Nawwaf Salam sharply criticized on Tuesday Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak's comments last week that UN Security Council Resolution 1701 "is not and will not be implemented." Salam said Israel was violating Resolution 1701, thus it was hampering its implementation. He gave a detailed list of Israel's ongoing violations during a Security Council session on the Middle East on Tuesday.

Salam said Israel was carrying out an average of 20 violations per day.

He also claimed that the latest Israeli violation was the Jewish state's "infiltration" into Lebanon's telephone network after the prisoner swap with Hizbullah last week. Some Lebanese civilians have received audio and SMS messages from "the State of Israel."

Salam said the territorial violations were detailed in UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's seventh report on the implementation of Resolution 1701, which put an end to the summer 2006 war.

The ambassador also underlined the presence of unexploded cluster bombs and land mines in South Lebanon left over from the 34-day July-August war in 2006. The munitions have led to civilian deaths and are impeding the movements of locals, he added.

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§Ministers wrangle over official stance on Hizbullah's arms

by via Daily Star, Lebanon

Fri, Jul 25, 2008 7:55AM

Thursday, July 24, 2008 : Debate over the future of Hizbullah's weapons hindered a seventh effort on Thursday to draft a ministerial statement for the new national unity government. Following a meting headed by Prime Minister Fouad Siniora at the Grand Serail of a committee of ministers drafting the policy platform, Information Minister Tarek Mitri told reporters.

§US wants Lebanon to talk to Israel about Shebaa

by via Daily Star, Lebanon

Fri, Jul 25, 2008 8:01AM

Thursday, July 24, 2008 : A US initiative to resolve the dispute over the occupied Shebaa Farms is still on the table, and is being considered by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, An-Nahar newspaper's correspondent in Washington on Wednesday quoted an American official as saying.

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