Hezbollah blasts UN call to settle Lebanon-Syria border
The fundamentalist Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah criticized a UN envoy’s call for Syria and Lebanon to work together to draw their shared border, describing it as pro- Israel. “This report conforms to Israeli demands,” Hezbollah MP Ali Ammar said, referring to a report by UN envoy Terje Roed-Larsen in which he reiterated his call for Syria and Lebanon to take urgent steps to delineate their border. In the report to the UN Security Council on Tuesday, he specifically urged the two neighbours to agree on demarcating the border in the so-called Shebaa Farms area, a small mountainous territory at the convergence of the Lebanese-Syrian-Israeli borders. Full Story