Lebanon denounces Israeli violations of its sovereignty, stresses Larsen's report lacks realism

Lebanon has denounced the Israeli air, land and sea violations of the Lebanese sovereignty. Practices which have recently escalated.

In a statement issued yesterday, read by the minister of information Michael Smaha, the Lebanese cabinet stressed that the anti Lebanese aircraft fire in south Lebanon is always linked directly to the Israeli air violations.

The Lebanese Cabinet welcomed the report submitted by the UN secretary general Kofi Annan to the UN security council on the situation standing in South Lebanon while it criticized the press statement issued by Terry Larsen, the special envoy for the UN secretary general to the Middle East because it did not indicate the reason why the Lebanese anti- aircraft means fire at the Israeli planes. The Lebanese cabinet said that Larsen's statement lacks realism.