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Syrian President Bashar Assad (right) greeting the Emir of Qatar
Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani at Damascus airport on Monday. (AP)
Last update - 23:32 22/08/2006
Assad rejects Israel's demand for UN troops on Syria-Lebanon
border
By Reuters
DAMASCUS - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Tuesday
rejected Israeli demands for the deployment of international troops on the
Lebanese-Syrian border to stop what Israel says is the smuggling of arms to
Hezbollah.
"This would be a withdrawal of Lebanese sovereignty and a
hostile position," Assad said, according to advance excerpts of an interview to
be aired by Dubai Television on Wednesday.
The United Nations is trying to assemble a force of 15,000 to
monitor a truce in southern Lebanon after a 34-day war between Israel and
Hezbollah, which ended eight days ago with an uneasy truce.
Israel wants UN troops to police border crossings between
Lebanon and Syria to prevent weapons smuggling.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said stationing some of the
international force at border crossings and Beirut airport would enable Israel
to lift its air and sea blockade of Lebanon.
UN envoy Terje Roed-Larsen said on Tuesday that there were
indications from senior Lebanese officials that they would request help in
monitoring the crossings and that the international community would heed any
such requests.
He said about 2,000 Lebanese forces had deployed along the
border with Syria.
UN Security Council Resolution 1701 establishing the
cease-fire also demands that Lebanon's borders be demarcated, particularly to
solve a dispute over the Shaba Farms near the border between Lebanon, Israel
and Syria.
Assad said, however, that his country would not draw the
border until Israel withdrew from the area.
"There will be no drawing of the border in the Shaba Farms
before the Israeli forces leave it," Assad said.
"Hezbollah's victory was enough to teach Israel a lesson,
that the isolation of Syria has failed and that anyone who tries to isolate
Syria isolates himself from basic issues."
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