Lebanese parliament speaker shows a map that proves Shebaa farms as Lebanese property

Lebanon has renewed its commitment to just and comprehensive peace and to UN resolution 425 provides for Israel's complete withdrawal from all occupied Lebanese territories, including Shebaa farms.

On Wednesday, speaker of the Lebanese parliament Nabih Berri showed a map released by maps department at the US state department in 1976 in which Shebaa farms are shown inside the Lebanese borders.

In a press conference he held in Beirut on Wednesday, Berri added he showed the map to President Emile Lahoud and that this map refutes allegations made by the Israeli foreign minister David Levy in which he claimed that Lebanon did not hand over the UN even one map proves its ownership of Shebaa farms, SANA reported.

Berri added " I intended before the meeting of the UN Security Council to acquaint the world and Arab public opinion, through the media, with an American map released in 1976 and clearly shows the farms of Shebaa as part of the Lebanese territories. Herewith we present this documents map."

Berri added he will contact the Prime Minister al-Hoss in his capacity as a foreign minister and giving him copies of this map to be handed over later to the UN Security council.