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Kronfol

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2003-10-05
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2004-05-17
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  1. “Lebanon requested a meeting of the Security Council due to Israel's excessive violations of Lebanon's air space and of the Blue Line arrangements sponsored by the United Nations in southern Lebanon. Those actions led to an act aggression against a Member State of the United Nations and current member of the Security Council, in addition to being an act of aggression against a sisterly State with whom my country has the closest of relations. The Charter of the United Nations and the norms of international law, which all of us must respect, warn against any act of aggression by any Member State against another irrespective of the reason. They also hold that a State should first resort to the Security Council to argue its case.”

    2003-10-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4836 (2003) · source

  2. “They also endanger stability along that line and represent Israel's intention to export its current dilemmas in the occupied territories to other places. "As it draws the attention of this Council to this grave situation, Lebanon is fully confident in the measures the Council will take to condemn Israel and to deter it from similar acts of aggression that would lead to dire consequences that would destabilize the current situation along the Blue Line as well as seriously endanger peace and stability in the region." That letter, dated 5 October 2003 from Beirut, is from the Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister for Expatriate Lebanese, Mr. Michael Smaha.”

    2003-10-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4836 (2003) · source

  3. “"It is to be noted that despite the repeated positions of the Secretary-General, and notwithstanding the announcements and warnings by his representative in Lebanon, the Israeli violations continue without any grounds or justifications. "The most recent of those violations is the use of Lebanese airspace in order to commit an act of aggression against a sister neighbouring State. That action consititutes a serious escalation of the situation and a new development in the method of Israeli attacks. "On this basis Lebanon requests that the Security Council meet immediately to examine these acts of aggression and to take proper measures to deter Israel. Those violations, especially the most recent, constitute blatant aggression against the Blue Line, which is sponsored by the United Nations in southern Lebanon.”

    2003-10-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4836 (2003) · source

  4. “Our understanding now is that the Secretariat is in the process of translating that letter from Arabic so that it may be circulated to all members of the Council. I request that that fact be reflected in the official records of this meeting. I will now read the text of that letter: "His Excellency, the President of the Security Council, Ambassador John Negroponte: "We would like to advise you, Sir, that in the morning of Sunday, 5 October 2003, Israeli military planes violated the airspace of Lebanon in order to strike a site inside the territory of the Syrian Arab Republic. On the same date, at noon, eight other Israeli military planes violated the airspace in southern and northern Lebanon.”

    2003-10-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4836 (2003) · source

  5. “Mr. Kronfol (Lebanon)(spoke in Arabic): Allow me first, Mr. President, to express to you my hope that your presidency of the Council this month will be successful in achieving peace and security in the whole world, especially in our region. Let me thank your predecessor, the Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom, for his skilful presidency. At the beginning I wish to state that my Government today addressed a letter to the President of the Security Council and to the Secretary-General of the United Nations in which it requested the convening of an immediate meeting of the Security Council to consider the violation by Israeli military planes of the Lebanese airspace in order to strike a site inside the territory of the Syrian Arab Republic.”

    2003-10-05 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.4836 (2003) · source