Syria Criticizes Amendments Requested by Lebanon on 1559
Syrian Ambassador to the United Nations Bashar Jaafari criticized the "logical framework" approach of U.N. Special Envoy Terry Rod Larsen”s budget for the implementation of Resolution 1559.
"Syria looks to the secretariat general of the U.N. to revise the logical framework of the special envoy”s budget," Jaafari announced on Thursday.
Larsen has been charged with supervising the execution of 1559 by U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon.
The ambassador criticized this framework by saying "the special envoy”s treatment of the clauses of resolution 1559 on the issue of foreign forces from Lebanon diverted the attention from the real problem: the Israeli occupation of Arab lands."
Jaafari added that his country had complied in full with the resolution and had withdrawn all of its military and security forces from Lebanon but that Syria”s name continued to be be smudged.
"The continuing implication of Syria… is unacceptable and inconsistent with the United Nation”s charter regarding resolution 1559 which is [based on] the neutrality of the international employees [working on] the implementation of resolution 1559," he concluded.
Syrian forces withdrew from Lebanon in 2005.