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HOT NEWS for 27/5/2000 (Go to News Archive to browse previous news)

• The UN General Secretary, Kofi Anan, described the conversations made by his special Delegate, Terry Rod Larsen, in Beirut, as perfect, and declared of the Implementation of the Resolution 425 within days.

• The United Nations sources said that Anan will submit, during the beginning of next week, to the Security Council, a report based on Larsen's information that confirms the Israeli withdrawal from the South proved by the UNIFIL's Leadership, by air and land, in a step to increase this Force and to make it spread on all the liberated territories.

• Larsen stressed in his press conference held in Beirut, on mentioning the reconciliation spirit that the Lebanese have, and the Lebanese attitude regarding Shebaa Farms. He considered the Government receiving Lahed Militia's arms as a very important sign. He explained the International attitude towards Shebaa Farms Issue saying that the latter lies within the domain of UNDOP's operations, and that the separation line of the UNIFIL does not include the Farms since 1978, consequently, any Lebanese-Syrian Agreement should be registered in the Security Council to re-draw such line.

• Parallel to the aforesaid, the Syrian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Farouk Sharaa, insisted on the Lebanese identity of Shebaa Farms. His speech was during the works of the Euro-Mediterranean Conference held in Lisbon. He announced his full support to the UN role in the South of Lebanon, and indicated to the Syrian opposition towards allowing the International Armies to dismantle Hizbollah from its arms, explaining that this party is not a militia, it is a resisting movement, calling, at the same time, Israel to draw its hand towards peace, and not to show up muscles.

• The President of the Republic, Emile Lahhoud, talked to C.N.N. saying that the right is back to its owners, and that the Resistance was very strong in the Lebanese History where all the people unite with the Resistance and the Army. He added, that the Liberation was achieved thanks to the unity and consolidation of the supporters together with the opposers, and nobody accepts the Israeli existence in Lebanon, all agreed with each other, so Israel was compelled to leave.

• He added: " All the Lebanese were feared of any security problem after the withdrawal, but that did not happen, because the people are united, and when this is the fact, then no fear of any problems or revenge actions between the Lebanese.

• Hizbollah General Secretary, Hasan Nasrallah, considered the Israeli defeat as a victory to all Lebanon. He assured that the Resistance does not aim to replace the State, but the State is responsible for these territories that came back to its sovereignty. He stressed on the continuation of the Resistance as far as there remain Lebanese arrested in the Israeli Prisons, and as Shebaa Farms are still occupied. He called for initiating a biggest construction and development workshop, not only in the South, but also, in Baalbeck, Hermel and Bekaa.

• The Member Nassib Lahhoud saw, in a Radio conversation, that all lived the jubilation of the liberation, and that the Government has to prepare to spread the Army in that region, because some of the jubilation images are harmful to the International general View.

• He disclosed of Lebanese and Syrian communications with the entire local sides in the South to keep the real victory image and to avoid any misdeed that harms such picture.

• Apart from this, and after his night return from Nakkoura, Larsen was seen in a Cafeteria in Beirut Commercial Center, where President Hariri joined him by haphazard, then the Speaker of the House, President Nabih Berri and his Vice President, Elie Firzli.

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