{"id":181239,"date":"2002-01-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T21:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=181239"},"modified":"2019-03-11T21:09:38","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T21:09:38","slug":"auto-insert-181239","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-181239\/","title":{"rendered":"UNIFIL mandate\/Air, sea, land violations\/UNTSO tasks – SecCo draft resolution"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Draft resolution<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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 The Security Council<\/i>, <\/p><\/div>\n

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 Recalling<\/i> all its previous resolutions on Lebanon, in particular resolutions 425 (1978) and 426 (1978) of 19 March 1978, 1310 (2000) of 27 July 2000, 1337 (2001) of 30 January 2001 and 1365 (2001) of 31 July 2001, as well as the statements of its President on the situation in Lebanon, in particular the statement of 18 June 2000 (S\/PRST\/2000\/21),<\/p><\/div>\n

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 Recalling further<\/i> the letter from its President to the Secretary-General of 18 May 2001 (S\/2001\/500),<\/p><\/div>\n

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 Recalling also<\/i> the Secretary-General’s conclusion that, as of 16 June 2000, Israel had withdrawn its forces from Lebanon in accordance with resolution 425 (1978) and met the requirements defined in the Secretary-General’s report of 22 May 2000 (S\/2000\/460), as well as the Secretary-General’s conclusion that the Â鶹APP Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) had essentially completed two of the three parts of its mandate, focusing now on the remaining task of restoring international peace and security,<\/p><\/div>\n

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 Emphasizing<\/i> the interim nature of UNIFIL,<\/p><\/div>\n

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 Recalling<\/i> its resolution 1308 (2000) of 17 July 2000,<\/p><\/div>\n

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  Recalling further<\/i> the relevant principles contained in the Convention on the Safety of Â鶹APP and Associated Personnel adopted on 9 December 1994,<\/p><\/div>\n

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 Responding <\/i>to the request of the Government of Lebanon, as stated in the letter from its Permanent Representative to the Â鶹APP of 9 January 2002 to the Secretary-General (S\/2002\/40),<\/p><\/div>\n

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 1.  Welcomes<\/i> the report of the Secretary-General on UNIFIL of 16 January 2002 (S\/2002\/55), and endorses<\/i> his observations and recommendations;<\/p><\/div>\n

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 2.   Decides<\/i> to extend the present mandate of UNIFIL, as recommended by the Secretary-General, for a further period of six months, until 31 July 2002; <\/p><\/div>\n

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 3.  Requests<\/i> the Secretary-General to continue to take the necessary measures to implement the reconfiguration of UNIFIL as outlined in his recent report and in accordance with the letter of the President of the Security Council of 18 May 2001, in the light of developments on the ground and in consultation with the Government of Lebanon and the troop-contributing countries;<\/p><\/div>\n

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 4.   Reiterates<\/i> its strong support for the territorial integrity, sovereignty and political independence of Lebanon within its internationally recognized boundaries; <\/p><\/div>\n

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 5.  Calls on<\/i> the Government of Lebanon to continue to take steps to ensure the return of its effective authority throughout the south, including the deployment of Lebanese armed forces;<\/p><\/div>\n

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 6.  Calls on<\/i> the parties to ensure UNIFIL is accorded full freedom of movement in the discharge of its mandate throughout its area of operation;<\/p><\/div>\n

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 7.   Encourages<\/i> the Government of Lebanon to ensure a calm environment throughout the south; <\/p><\/div>\n

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 8.  Reiteratesits call<\/i> on the parties to continue to fulfil the commitments they have given to respect fully the withdrawal line identified by the Â鶹APP, as set out in the Secretary-General’s report of 16 June 2000 (S\/2000\/590), to exercise utmost restraint and to cooperate fully with the Â鶹APP and UNIFIL;<\/p><\/div>\n

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 9.  Condemns<\/i> all acts of violence, expresses great concern<\/i> about the serious breaches in the air, sea and land violations of the withdrawal line, and urges<\/i> the parties to put an end to these violations and to respect the safety of the UNIFIL personnel;<\/p><\/div>\n

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 10.  Supports<\/i> the continued efforts of UNIFIL to maintain the ceasefire along the withdrawal line through mobile patrols and observation from fixed positions and through close contacts with the parties to correct violations, resolve incidents and prevent the escalation of incidents;<\/p><\/div>\n

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 11.  Welcomes<\/i> the continued contribution of UNIFIL to operational demining, encourages <\/i>further assistance in mine action by the Â鶹APP to the Government of Lebanon in support of both the continued development of its national mine action capacity and emergency demining activities in the south, commends <\/i>donor countries for supporting these efforts through financial and in-kind contributions and welcomes in this regard the establishment of the International Support Group, takes note<\/i> of the communication to the Government of Lebanon and UNIFIL of maps and information on the location of mines and stresses<\/i> the necessity to provide the Government of Lebanon and UNIFIL with any additional maps and records on the location of mines;<\/p><\/div>\n

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 12.   Requests<\/i> the Secretary-General to continue consultations with the Government of Lebanon and other parties directly concerned on the implementation of this resolution; <\/p><\/div>\n

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 13.  Requests also<\/i> the Secretary-General, following appropriate consultations, including with the Government of Lebanon and the troop-contributing countries, to submit to the Council before the end of the present mandate a comprehensive report on the activities of UNIFIL, its technical reconfiguration and the tasks presently carried out by the Â鶹APP Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO); <\/p><\/div>\n

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 14.  Looks forward<\/i> to the early fulfilment of the mandate of UNIFIL;<\/p><\/div>\n

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 15.   Stresses<\/i> the importance of, and the need to achieve, a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in the Middle East, based on all its relevant resolutions including its resolutions 242 (1967) of 22 November 1967 and 338 (1973) of 22 October 1973. <\/p><\/div>\n

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Draft resolution  The Security Council,  Recalling all its previous resolutions on Lebanon, in particular resolutions 425 (1978) and 426 (1978) of 19 March 1978, 1310 (2000) of 27 July 2000, 1337 (2001) of 30 January 2001 and 1365 (2001) of 31 July 2001, as well as the statements of its President on the situation in Lebanon, […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[2965],"document-source":[1362,1949,3853],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[2365,1929,2309],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-181239","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-draft-resolution","document-source-security-council","document-source-united-nations-interim-force-in-lebanon-unifil","document-source-united-nations-truce-supervision-organization-untso","document-subject-international-presence","document-subject-peacekeeping","document-subject-protection","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/181239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/181239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=181239"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=181239"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=181239"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=181239"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=181239"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=181239"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=181239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}