Syria to U.N.: We Have Nothing to Do with 1559
The Syrian government has asked U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon "not to introduce Syria”s name" in special envoy Terje Roed-Larsen”s reports on the implementation of Security Council resolution 1559, An Nahar daily reported Thursday.
In similar letters to Ban and the Security Council president for this month Austrian ambassador Thomas Mayr-Harting, Syrian envoy Bashar al-Jaafari said that Damascus has implemented all 1559 articles on Syria.
"What is left of the resolution”s articles is a Lebanese issue that Syria has nothing to do with," al-Jaafari stressed, according to An Nahar.
The letters also urged Ban to encourage Lebanese consensus "rather than creating problems that would give the impression that Lebanon is subject to the guardianship of some general-secretariat representatives," in reference to Roed-Larsen.
Al-Jaafari accused Israel of not implementing 1559, saying the Security Council should pressure the Jewish State to withdraw from the Shebaa farms, Kfarshouba hills and the northern part of Ghajar and end its violations of Lebanese sovereignty.
"Border demarcation between Syria and Lebanon is a bilateral issue and a sovereign decision between the two countries and no one has the right to interfere in it," the Syrian government said in the letters.