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Beirut
Lebananese Prime Minister Hassan Diab said on Wednesday that Israel had breached his country’s land, sea and air space more than 1,000 times since the beginning of this year.
Lebanon does not have diplomatic ties with Israel. The two countries are technically at war.
“The total Israeli violations have reached 374 on land and 386 others at sea over the last five months alone, and 250 more in the air over the last four months,” Diab said at a meeting with the ambassadors of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.
Chinese, French, Russian, British and US ambassadors attended. Diab reiterated his country’s commitment to UN Security Council resolution 1701, which ended the 33-day Lebanon War in 2006.
He said that Lebanon had shown “the highest level of commitment to the resolution,” despite allegedly repeated violations by Israel. At the same meeting, Lebanese President Michel Aoun called for the renewal of a mandate of the UN peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon (UNIFIL), positioned on the Lebanese-Israeli border.
“Thanks to this partnership between the Lebanese Army and UNIFIL, the south has been enjoying a unique calm for 14 years in a region full of conflicts and wars,” he said, according to state news agency NNA. The UNIFIL’s mandate expires in August 2020.
Israel’s UN ambassador Danny Danon said in May that his country wants UN peacekeepers to have access to all sites in Lebanon.
Lebanon’s pro-Iran Hezbollah movement, which wields strong influence in southern Lebanon, opposes any attempt to change the current UNIFIL mandate.
Beirut
Lebananese Prime Minister Hassan Diab said on Wednesday that Israel had breached his country’s land, sea and air space more than 1,000 times since the beginning of this year.
Lebanon does not have diplomatic ties with Israel. The two countries are technically at war.
“The total Israeli violations have reached 374 on land and 386 others at sea over the last five months alone, and 250 more in the air over the last four months,” Diab said at a meeting with the ambassadors of the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council.
Chinese, French, Russian, British and US ambassadors attended. Diab reiterated his country’s commitment to UN Security Council resolution 1701, which ended the 33-day Lebanon War in 2006.
He said that Lebanon had shown “the highest level of commitment to the resolution,” despite allegedly repeated violations by Israel. At the same meeting, Lebanese President Michel Aoun called for the renewal of a mandate of the UN peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon (UNIFIL), positioned on the Lebanese-Israeli border.
“Thanks to this partnership between the Lebanese Army and UNIFIL, the south has been enjoying a unique calm for 14 years in a region full of conflicts and wars,” he said, according to state news agency NNA. The UNIFIL’s mandate expires in August 2020.
Israel’s UN ambassador Danny Danon said in May that his country wants UN peacekeepers to have access to all sites in Lebanon.
Lebanon’s pro-Iran Hezbollah movement, which wields strong influence in southern Lebanon, opposes any attempt to change the current UNIFIL mandate.
