Israeli violations for the Blue line in South Lebanon

Lebanese Prime Minister Salim al-Hoss on Thursday discussed with the UN special coordinator Francis O Kilo means of developing the relations between Lebanon and the UN.

Following the meeting O Kilo explained that his visit to Lebanon came at the request of the UN special envoy Terry Larsen to continue cooperation and discuss aids given by the UN and the International community to Lebanon with concentration on urgent needs.

He said that work will continue in this respect, stressing the development of relations between Lebanon and the UN, at the direct guidance of the UN Secretary General Kofi Annan.

Meantime, the Lebanese military delegation to verify Israel's withdrawal outside the Lebanese borders on Thursday made a tour along the blue line to make verify the Israeli violations.

Lebanese security sources said the Lebanese military delegation registered during the tour several observations on Israeli violations in al-Abbad position and continued dumping inside the liberated Lebanese areas.

The sources noted that these violations were reported to UNIFIL's leadership, which for its part called on the Israeli occupation forces to give up crossing into the liberated Lebanese areas by its soldiers or vehicles.

The sources added that the Lebanese military team decided to hold weekly tours on the borders to make sure that no more violations are being made by the Israeli forces to the Blue Line.

On another development, former Lebanese prime minister Rafik al-Hariri on Thursday underlined the importance of establishing solid economic relations with Syria to be up to the standard of the political relations between the two states.

In statements he made in Beirut on Thursday, al-Hariri called for joint efforts with " our Syrian brothers" to develop economic relations towards integration and to benefit from Syrian and Lebanese markets and production in each of the two countries.