Lebanon calls on UN to halt Israeli violations in al-Ghajar village
Lebanon-Israel, Politics, 2/3/2001

Lebanon has called on the UN to return the situations in the Lebanese village of al-Ghajar to what it had been before the violations of the Israeli forces in the said village.

The Lebanese foreign minister Mahmoud Hamoud said in a statement in Beirut on Friday that the Israeli forces violated the blue line drawn by the UN following the defeat of the Israeli forces and their withdrawal from the Lebanese territories into an area of 4 kilometers inside the liberated Lebanese territories.

The Lebanese minister added that he had asked the special representative for the UN Secretary General Kofi Annan during their meeting in Beirut on Friday to review this Israeli violation, noting that the UN envoy told him he will fly by a UNIFIL helicopter in the atmosphere of al-Ghajar village to make sure that Israel has halted such practices.

Hamoud added that he asked Lebanon's representative at the UN Salim al-Tadmuri to meet with the UN chief and with members of the UN Security Council to acquaint them with the new Israeli line and to assure lebanon's demands to restore the condition to what had been before and not only to limit to halting the Israeli acts.

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