Plumbly on 1701 Report: Hizbullah, Lebanese Armed Factions Should Withdraw from Syria
United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon Derek Plumbly briefed on Wednesday the members of the Security Council on the implementation of resolution 1701.
Plumbly considered in his report that Hizbullah's arms are a “clear obstacle” facing the state, undermining its authority and preventing it from controlling all its territories.
The U.N. diplomat also expressed concern over the attacks launched by extremist groups, including the Islamic State and al-Qaida-affiliate al-Nusra Front, against the Lebanese army.
Plumbly also condemned the involvement of the Lebanese in the war raging in neighboring country Syria, demanding Hizbullah and other Lebanese factions to “withdraw from Syria.”
Hizbullah sent fighters to Syria to back President Bashar Assad's forces against rebels trying to remove him from power. The armed intervention in Syria earned the group the enmity of Syria's predominantly Sunni rebels. Assad is a member of the Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam.
Over the past year, Syrian troops and Hizbullah fighters have captured most of the towns and villages in Syria's mountainous Qalamoun region along the Lebanon border, depriving the rebels of residential areas where they can stay during the winter.
However, Hizbullah's involvement in Syria had drawn the ire of many in Lebanon.
Plumbly also expressed fear over border violations in south Lebanon, in particular by the Israeli army.
Resolution 1701, which ended the Hizbullah-Israel war in 2006, expanded the mandate of U.N. troops in the South, which was originally formed in 1978 after the outbreak of Lebanon's 1975-1990 civil war.
It imposed a strict embargo on weapons destined for Lebanese or foreign militias in Lebanon, and pressed Israel to end violations of Lebanon's airspace and to withdraw from northern Ghajar.
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over 9 years
Yes. HA works for Lebanon, not for plumby or his US-zionist masters.
We dont care what that puppet says, it's clearly not them who would lift a finger if we get invaded like syria & iraq or massacred like the yazidis, kurds, iraqi & syria christians, so they can keep their good advice.
over 9 years
We dont care what that puppet says, it's clearly not them who would lift a finger if we get invaded like syria & iraq or massacred like the yazidis, kurds, iraqi & syria christians, so they can keep their good advice
is that why HA went to bosnia-herzegovina?
over 9 years
HA works for itself and iran... nothing to do with Lebanon. dream on...
over 9 years
isis= israely state intelligence services
over 9 years
isis= i squat in sewers
over 9 years
The ideal situation will be for Hezbollah to begin its contingencies to start leaving the Syrian conflict at the earliest possible time. From there Hezbollah must and should sit together at the same table with its Lebanese counterparts, the state and the army so that we could all agree on a real and proper timetable under which Hezbollah will gradually surrender its weapons to the state and the LAF. At the same time, Hezbollah should dismantle and integrate into the army, many formulas exist all of which are designed to solve one of Lebanon's worst problems. Hezbollah should only remain as a political party under the law like everyone else. Our worst shortcoming as Lebanese is our lack of unity, if we were united as should be the case, I doubt anyone would dare touch us.
over 9 years
Southern and in between the two enemies of Lebanon, the lebanese secular leftists resistance leaders were being murdered by a third one, the ISlamic revolution in Lebanon so the can claim the title of resistance more accurately the ISlamic resistance in Lebanon
over 9 years
It doesn't apply to hizbulah. He reminded that Lebanese factions need to withdraw. But that faction is Iranian.
Nusra is not Lebanese either...
over 9 years
indigestion phase is more likely, many ate then tried to swallow Lebanon but at this, the digestion, stage they all stumble, now it's hezbolla's tern.
over 9 years
ISIS is the greatest threat to us in my mind right now in November of 2014. In the past you can make the case for Syria, and Israel both. But right now if you are from Ras Baalbek for example are you not worried about HA. Right now we really do need Lebanese willing to fight ISIS. Is it wiser to deploy are small ill-equipped army on the border? Is it wiser to have HA on the border? Or is it wisest to have HA go play some offense over there and keep them off our border away from our families and places of worship. Someone has to make the call. I'm not saying HA is 100% right here.
But HA has received the blessings from the caporal and wazwaz imbassil to pursue their war in syria and everywhere else.