UN General Assembly
2006

again, without a shadow of a doubt, reasserted the fact that it is a nation that respects its commitments, while it implements international resolutions and proceeds to deploy 15,000 Lebanese army soldiers on the border between Lebanon and Israel — while Israel continues its daily breaches of Security Council resolution 1701 (2006), having imposed a humiliating siege on Lebanon, and refusing to withdraw from the Lebanese territory in the Shaba’a farms sector, whose liberation remains Lebanon’s sacred right and duty. To this day, Israel continues to treat the people of Lebanon as hostages, kidnapping at will scores of its citizens, in a flagrant breach of that resolution. Finally, Israel refuses to surrender to the United Nations the maps showing thousands of mines it left behind on Lebanese territory, while the case and fate of Lebanon’s prisoners in Israel remains very ambiguous, and no clear resolution of their ordeal is addressed anywhere. Today, for the sake of peace, the world community is called upon to save Security Council resolution 1701 (2006) from oblivion, a fate that characterized scores of previous resolutions.