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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Hizbollah dismisses UN demand to disarm
2006-04-20
Lebanon's Hizbollah dismissed on Wednesday a new United Nations report asking Lebanon to disarm the guerrilla group and set its borders with Syria as pandering to Israeli demands. The report, obtained by Reuters on Tuesday and prepared by UN envoy Terje Roed-Larsen, was in response to Security Council resolution 1559, which demands foreign troops leave Lebanon and all militias in the country disband. "Terje Roed-Larsen ... tries to meet the demands of the Israeli agenda through the Lebanese gate," Ali Ammar, one of pro-Syrian Hizbollah's 14 parliament members, told LBC Television.

Hizbollah and Israel have clashed sporadically in the Israeli-occupied border territory of Shebaa Farms, which Israel considers Syrian land. Hizbollah considers it Lebanese. The Jewish state believes Hizbollah is a terrorist organisation and wants it disarmed. In Tuesday's report UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Lebanon must set its borders with Syria and disband Hizbollah before it could be master of its own nation.
Posted by:Fred

#2  I magine they are saying in a bad French accent a la "Monty Python and the Holy Grail": "We fart in your general direction!"
Posted by: borgboy   2006-04-20 10:47  

#1  Tik-tik. Tik-tik.
Posted by: gromgoru   2006-04-20 06:42  

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