Lebanon Asks U.N. to Forbid Israel from Oil Drilling in Disputed Area
Lebanese Ambassador to the U.N. Amal Mudallali has filed a memo to U.N. chief Antonio Guterres and Security Council President Geraldine Byrne Nason over the reports that Israel has granted the Halliburton company contracts to drill gas and oil wells in a disputed offshore area.
In the memo, filed at the instructions of Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib, Lebanon asks the Security Council to “verify that the drilling works do not lie in an area disputed by Lebanon and Israel, in order to avoid any infringement on the rights and sovereignty of Lebanon.”
Lebanon has also asked the Security Council to “prevent any future excavation works in the disputed areas to avoid any steps that might represent a threat to international peace and security.”
19 September 2021, 15:12
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Why is the senile, demented, army deserter and decomposing cadaver inhabiting Baabda still refusing to sign the draft bill that includes Lebanon’s new expanded claim of maritime borders? It's been 5 month and a half since the army command demarcated the extended border to Line 29 and Aoun keeps refusing to sign. Has this pseudo-man some kind a inherent phobia to signing anything unless it's to naturalize corrupt Syrian and Iraqi officials? I kind of feel sorry for those morons who paid embezzled hundreds of thousand dollars to Aoun and Bassil in return for the now useless Lebanese citizenship.
20 September 2021, 11:03
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So it should, (aand so would Lebanon) until and unless Lebanon agrees to sit down and talk with the definite intention of reaching an agreement, instead of just throwing up new territorial demand maps all the time.
21 September 2021, 13:58
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Israeli stooge with fake Israeli news that you repeat on your post
19 September 2021, 18:54
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Perhaps, only perhaps, and I very much doubt it, but this granting of a contract can finally make the government of Lebanon decide that the time to put forward new demands is over, and the only way forward so that the country can start searching for its own natural gas fields is........ to reach an agreement with Israel.
20 September 2021, 12:50
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Why do you ask the UN?
Ask our brave resistance! This is why they are here for! Right?
