Mideast situation/Lebanon – SecCo President statement

Consensus of the members of the Security Council of 19 April 1972.1/

"The President of the Security Council has held consultations with the members of the Council following the request of the Permanent Representative of Lebanon that the Security Council take necessary action to station additional United Nations observers in the Israel-Lebanon sector, as conveyed to the President of the Council and contained in annex 1 of his memorandum of 31 March 1972 to the Secretary-General, and in paragraph 1 of the annexed memorandum dated 4 April 1972 from the Secretary-General to the President of the Security Council.2/ The President of the Security Council also informed and consulted the Secretary-General.  Exceptionally, a formal meeting of the Security Council was not considered necessary in this instance.

"In the course of these consultations, the members of the Security Council reached without objection a consensus on the action to be taken in response to the request of the Lebanese Government and invited the Secretary-General to proceed in the manner outlined in his above-mentioned memorandum.  They further invited the Secretary-General to consult with the Lebanese authorities on the implementation of these arrangements.

"They also invited the Secretary-General to report periodically to the Security Council and in doing so to give his views on the need for the continuance of the above measures and on their scale."3/

                      

1/ Ibid., Supplement for April, May and June 1972, document S/10611.

2/ Ibid., document S/10611, annex.

3/ Subsequently, the President of the Security Council, in a letter dated 30 October 1972 (S/10818) [See Official Records of the Security Council, Twenty-seventh Year, Supplement for October, November and December 1972], stated that, after consultation with members of the Council, they had no objection to acceding to the request of the Government of Lebanon for an increase in the number of observation posts and the assignment of additional United Nations observers in the Israel-Lebanon sector.