Mideast situation/Lebanon – Letter from Lebanon

Letter dated 22 January 2002 from the Permanent
Representative of Lebanon to the United Nations
addressed to the Secretary-General

  On instructions from my Government, I have the honour to inform you that, because of the absence of maps showing the locations where mines have been placed, at about 1135 hours on 23 October 2001 an Israeli-made pressure-activated A-4 anti-personnel mine exploded during an operation to clear mines left behind by the Israeli occupation in the vicinity of Jabal Safi, killing First Lieutenant Majid Kasan.

  Lebanon calls attention to the increasing numbers of casualties being caused by the mines left in the liberated areas, and it requests you to make the necessary endeavours to prevail upon Israel to hand over all of the maps and records relating to mines and their locations, as required by Security Council resolution 1365 (2001) and the norms of international humanitarian law.

  I should be grateful if you would have this letter circulated as a document of the General Assembly, under agenda item 42, and of the Security Council.

( Signed) Sélim Tadmoury
Ambassador
Permanent Representative