That's just ignorance!
Posted on 09/01/2006 2:47:45 PM PDT by Ooh-Ah
Kofi Annan, the UN secretary-general, said today that Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian president, had promised to enforce an arms embargo on Hizbollah under a UN resolution that halted Israel's war with the Lebanese group.
"The president informed me that Syria supports the Security Council Resolution 1701 and will help in its implementation," Annan told reporters after talks with Assad in Damascus.
"While stating Syrian objections to the presence of foreign forces along the Syrian-Lebanese border, the president committed to me that Syria will take all necessary measures to implement in full paragraph 15 of the resolution," Annan added, referring to a provision that bans illegal arms shipments to Lebanon.
Syrian leaders have been angered by an Israeli demand for international troops to deploy on the Lebanese-Syrian border, the main conduit in the past for Hizbollah weapons supplies.
Lebanon, which has sent 8 600 soldiers to patrol the frontier, says it has no plans to ask UN troops to join them. Walid al-Moualem, the Syrian foreign minister, told reporters later that no weapons were crossing from his country to the guerrillas in Lebanon. "No arms are being smuggled to the resistance (Hizbollah) from Syria," he said.
Israel rebuffs Syrian peace offer talks On the sidelines of a conference in Italy, Shimon Peres, the Israeli deputy prime minister, repeated Israel's demand for UN verification of procedures on the Syrian-Lebanese border. "There must be a way to verify, now if this would be solved, and I think the secretary-general of the UN is looking for ways and means to assure it, then Israel will believe it," he told a news conference in Cernobbio.
The party of Walid Jumblatt, the Lebanese Druze leader, said in a statement today that last Saturday night Lebanese security officials allowed arms and ammunition to enter the country from Syria at the main Masnaa crossing point.
Israel has rebuffed repeated Syrian offers to renew talks on peace in return for the Golan and other occupied Arab land. The first contingent of 880 Italian troops will land in Lebanon tomorrow to join 2 300 UNIFIL peacekeepers already policing the fragile truce between Israel and Hizbollah.
The Spanish government said today it planned to send 1 100 troops to Lebanon as part of a UN peacekeeping force. France, Belgium and Poland are also offering extra troops to the expanded UN force for south Lebanon.
Germany is considering sending up to 2 000 troops, mainly navy personnel, to join the UN mission, media reported. Annan has said Israeli forces should withdraw fully from Lebanon as soon as 5 000 UN troops have arrived in the south.
Right. Rats guarding the cheese.
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhaaaa.
Coffee, get real, your insane, inept and an idiot.
Meadow Muffin
In other news: Michael Jackson has been assigned to protect little boys from pedophiles.
That'd be like us relying on the Mexican government to stop the flow of illegal immigrants.
That's just ignorance!
I think we should leave the UN and now!
Poor soul, I'm beginning to think that Kofi was either educated in America's public schools, or has undergone mind control by the Chinese.
wow.....just, wow......
"stupid" just doesn't cut it for this kind of idiocy
Does this idiot have any idea how irrelevant his pronoucements are.
"In other news: Michael Jackson has been assigned to protect little boys from pedophiles."
There is a closer precedent. Look to Syria's east border. Bush, Condi etc. have many more times than Kofi asked Syria to "control" its border.
And what is amazing is that he says this without even laughing out loud.
Is that like the Fox guarding the chicken coop?
No, Kofi is a willing front man liar to give Syria legitimacy.
He's a smart, corrupt, man.
Just evil.
Is this the Onion????? Good Grief! Charlie Brown!!!!
Well....if Assad says so then there is nothing to worry about.
And I will protect the virtue of your nubile, innocent, and beautiful 18-29 year old daughters. Just send 'em my way and you've nothing to fear; Kofi will vouch for me.
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