All Means Possible For Hezbollah To Regain Land

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All Means Possible For Hezbollah To Regain Land; Says Lebanon
Topic Started: Aug 12 2008, 01:54 PM (47 Views)
Wil	Aug 12 2008, 01:54 PM Post #1
Administrator Posts: 9,248 Group: Admin Member #1 Joined: September 21, 2005	Hezbollah backed over Shebaa farms Lebanon's new government has won a vote of confidence, approving a policy statement recognising Hezbollah's right to use all means possible to regain Israeli-occupied land claimed by Lebanon. One hundred members of the 128-seat parliament voted in support of the cabinet proposal on Tuesday, allowing the cabinet to finally start work. "One hundred MPs have given their confidence to the cabinet, five voted against and two abstained," Nabih Berri, the parliament speaker, announced to the assembly. The policy statement recognises the right of Lebanon, its government, people and armed movements to use all means possible to regain land claimed by Lebanon, a reference to the Shebaa Farms and nearby Israeli-held parts of Ghajjar village. Israel and the UN say Shebaa, occupied during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, is Syrian. Damascus and Beirut, which never demarcated borders, claim it is Lebanese. Hezbollah's weapons The policy statement was discussed in five days of parliamentary debate which underlined a wide divide over Hezbollah's arsenal. The ruling majority, backed by the West and most Sunni-led Arab states, nevertheless insists on Hezbollah's disarmament, a move Hezbollah and its political allies reject. Hezbollah's weapons will be discussed at a later date as part of a "national defence strategy" during a national dialogue to be chaired by Michel Sleiman, Lebanon's president. The national dialogue is part of the Qatari-mediated deal that ended Lebanon's political conflict. The policy statement also emphasised the government's commitment to a UN Security Council resolution that ended a 34-day war in 2006 between Hezbollah and Israel. It also adopted changes to economic policies agreed at an international aid conference held in Paris in 2007. http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2008/08/2008812134739450855.html



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