Lebanon, Syria reject UN security council demands to Damascus
Lebanon-Syria, Politics, 10/20/2004

Both Lebanon and Syria rejected the call addressed by the UN Security Council yesterday to Damascus to implement its previous resolution issued on September 2nd demanding it to withdraw its forces from Lebanon.

Lebanon considered that the UN call on Damascus to withdraw its forces from Lebanon constituted "a grave unprecedented matter towards the UN intervention in the internal affairs of one of its member states."

The secretary general of the Lebanese foreign ministry Muhammad Issa said that his country still considers that UN Security Council resolution no 1559 as a grave unprecedented matter towards getting the UN and the Security Council involved in dealing with the internal affairs of one of its member states.

For his par, the Syrian foreign minister Farouk al-Shara rejected yesterday in Brussels the call made by the UN, considering that UN resolution no 1559 constitutes an illegal threat. Syria's representative at the UN Faisal al-Miqdad criticized the pressures practiced by Washington at the UN Security Council in order to adopt an American Presidential statements demanding Damascus to withdarw its forces from lebanon.

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