Suleiman Urges U.N. Security Council to Stop Israel's 'Policy of Aggression'
President Michel Suleiman on Sunday strongly condemned “the criminal Israeli attacks on Syrian positions and the violation of Lebanese airspace to carry out these attacks that left a number of civilians dead.”
Suleiman said this behavior “is not alien to a common enemy whose policy is based on aggression,” noting that Israel “took advantage of the situations in Syria to carry out its attacks, exactly like it used to act in Lebanon during its plight (civil war).”
The president called on the international community and the U.N. Security Council to “take strict measures against Israel to stop its policy of aggression and to oblige it to respect the sovereignty of other countries.”
He also urged the Security Council to compel Israel to “abide by the U.N. resolutions and to convince it to engaged in the process of comprehensive and just peace which would provide stability to all countries in the region.”
Meanwhile, caretaker Prime Minister Najib Miqati denounced “the Israeli aggression against Syrian territory,” saying Israel “is carrying on with its violation of U.N. resolutions.”
In a press release, Miqati said the attacks “confirm once again Israel's hostile intentions which do not need further evidence, and are also part of the continuous aerial violations of Lebanese sovereignty and the threats that are being launched against Lebanon.”
The caretaker premier warned that such acts will lead to "more tensions and turbulence that are targeted against the peace process in the Middle East and the international and regional efforts that are being exerted to revive it."
A senior Israeli source said an overnight aerial assault hit Iranian weapons destined for Hizbullah.
A diplomatic source in Beirut told Agence France Presse three sites were targeted -- a military facility, a nearby weapons depot and an anti-aircraft unit in Sabura, west of the capital Damascus.
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