Miqati Stresses Lebanon Right to Defend Borders Against Any Violation
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Prime Minister Najib Miqati on Wednesday stressed “Lebanon’s right to protect all its borders and defend them against any violation.”
Miqati also emphasized that Lebanon has the right to benefit from its natural resources.
During a ministerial meeting dedicated to discuss the issue of demarcating Lebanon’s maritime borders, the premier noted that “the issue of the maritime borders will be discussed in cabinet tomorrow in order to take the appropriate decision concerning the strategy to confront the Israeli ambitions and threats.”
The conferees were briefed during the meeting on the process of demarcating Lebanon’s maritime borders and the steps that should be taken to follow up on this issue with the relevant international organizations and the Republic of Cyprus, “in order to stress Lebanon’s right to defend its borders and preserve its rights,” state-run National News Agency reported.
Ministers Jebran Bassil, Adnan Mansour, Ghazi Aridi, Shakib Qortbawi, Fayez Ghosn and Nicolas Nahhas attended the meeting.
Miqati’s sources told As Safir daily in remarks published Wednesday that during the meeting the prime minister would give instructions to prepare a file to submit it to the U.N., after Israel's cabinet approved a map of the country's proposed maritime borders with Lebanon that conflicts significantly with those suggested by Lebanon in its own submission to the world body.
Foreign Minister Adnan Mansour said that the conferees would “seriously and responsibly follow the issue and come up with a comprehensive national plan to confront the Israeli aggression on Lebanon’s rights.”
The plan would later be submitted to the cabinet to take the appropriate decision, he told As Safir.
For his part, Energy and Water Minister Jebran Bassil hailed Wednesday’s meeting at the Grand Serail as a “very important step.”
“It reflects the importance of maritime borders and the keenness on Lebanon’s right,” he told the newspaper. “We asked during the (tenure of the) cabinet of Saad Hariri for such meetings more than seven times but no one met our request.”
“We should immediately resort to the U.N. to confirm not only Lebanon’s right to its oil and gas resources and the recognition of its maritime and economic borders but also to request it to respect its decisions and international law,” Bassil said.
13 July 2011, 22:06
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you want the UN to respect your decisions . but you will not respect any international laws such as STL mister basil " the world is a tow way street give and take " but you and your Hezbollah only know one way " the arrogance way " good luck getting your way at the UN
13 July 2011, 22:06
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you want the UN to respect your decisions . but you will not respect any international laws such as STL mister basil " the world is a tow way street give and take " but you and your Hezbollah only know one way " the arrogance way " good luck getting your way at the UN
13 July 2011, 22:32
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You have got to F****** kidding me. Where is the border security on the Syrian front? Where is the control of arms brought into Lebanese territory? What a F****** joke. May peace be with Lebanon and Israel.
13 July 2011, 23:05
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What's so wrong with removing HA's weapons or integrating them into the Lebanese army? There is no way a state can really advance socially and economically if there's the threat of weapons. Don't kid yourself into thinking that HA is still necessary for Lebanon. They were a real resistance in the past but are no longer needed. Tell me of a single nation in the entire world that is a true and thriving democracy and that respects its citizens and treats them with dignity while having weapons and organized militias in their backyard!
13 July 2011, 23:21
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Quite revealing bigdig that you see disarming illegal militias as 'accommodating the west' rather than preserving peace and law and order in Lebanon.
The Hezbollah spokesman/PM Miqati is beginning the process which will lead to another 'resistance' initiated war which will kill innocent Lebanese.
13 July 2011, 23:22
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After the maritime border then what? Who's gonna drill ? Remove the filthy's non-Islamic weapons, sign a peace treaty with all our neigbours and get a real job. Spare us of your Israeli complexes.
13 July 2011, 23:23
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After the maritime border then what? Who's gonna drill ? Remove the filthy's non-Islamic weapons, sign a peace treaty with all our neigbours and get a real job. Spare us of your Israeli complexes.
14 July 2011, 00:48
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Busy doing nothing, Israel has been always used as a pretense for mrdiocrity. Since this government could not do anything to benefit lebanon it pretends now to be busy with the maritime borders as if the lebanese are starving or suffering economically because of that?
14 July 2011, 03:39
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Expat... Have you heard of the united states of America ? They have armed militias all over the place.
14 July 2011, 10:11
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I would agree with last bigdig's comment here....we all want peace guys...we all want to return...but this should be done with dignity...look at Jordan...what did they get in exchange of their peace treaty with Israel? The right to beg for getting some water???? The integration of HA's weapons into the army should be done at the right time and smartly...
14 July 2011, 10:17
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I think things are even much worse... we have mow people on this board who pretend to be patriots and all they do is criticize the government even when the latter is defending it's potential oil/gas reserves.
It's funny to be so blind that even when we ask UN not to be biased and do what it has to do, applying the International territorial laws, we find people almost defending the rights of Israel who doesn't respect international laws at all.
It is not about HA arms, it is not about STL, it is about protecting our assets & rights as a country who is a UN member... you want to debate about the STL we can but it's another subject and same goes with the arms of HA.
