In his report on the implementation of U.N. Resolution 1701, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon stated that Hizbullah's military forces constitute a violation of Resolutions 1701 and 1559, which call to disarm the Lebanese militias. He urged Lebanese President Michel Suleiman to renew the session of the National Dialogue Table, which is supposed to address the issue of Hizbullah's arms. He also pressed the Syrian and Lebanese governments to define their shared border and to tighten control over it.
Ban urged the Lebanese authorities to implement their decision to collect Palestinian weapons outside the refugee camps, and to dismantle the military camps of the Palestinian groups Popular Front – General Command and Fatah Intifada on the Syria-Lebanon border, which threaten Lebanon's stability. He called on Syria to cooperate with this move, and urged Israel to withdraw from the village of Rajar and to stop its air sorties over Lebanon's territory, which, he said, are a violation of 1701.
Source: Al-Mustaqbal (Lebanon), February 28, 2010.
