{"id":177331,"date":"2002-02-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T20:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=177331"},"modified":"2019-03-11T20:28:43","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T20:28:43","slug":"auto-insert-177331","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-177331\/","title":{"rendered":"Mideast situation\/Lebanon &#8211; Letter from Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>Letter dated 13 February 2002 from the Permanent Representative of Lebanon<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;I should like to inform you that there were 44 Israeli aerial, terrestrial and maritime violations of Lebanese sovereignty during the month of January 2002, broken down as follows:<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;padding-top:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;margin-left:20px;\">\n\t\t\t\t&nbsp;(a)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Twenty-three aerial violations by Israeli warplanes;\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;padding-top:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;margin-left:20px;\">\n\t\t\t\t&nbsp;(b)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Nine aerial violations by reconnaissance aircraft;\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;padding-top:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;margin-left:20px;\">\n\t\t\t\t&nbsp;(c)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Four aerial violations by helicopters;\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;padding-top:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;margin-left:20px;\">\n\t\t\t\t&nbsp;(d)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Three naval violations of Lebanese territorial waters;\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;padding-top:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;margin-left:20px;\">\n\t\t\t\t&nbsp;(e)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;One air raid in which localities in Lebanese territory were bombed;\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;padding-top:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;margin-left:20px;\">\n\t\t\t\t&nbsp;(f)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Two violations in which localities in Lebanese territory came under artillery and other fire;\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;padding-top:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;margin-left:20px;\">\n\t\t\t\t&nbsp;(g)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Two violations in which there were encroachments on Lebanese territory.\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:justify;padding-top:11px;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;The incursions and encroachments committed by Israel in the air, on the ground and at sea are in violation of the Blue Line and contravene the provisions of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/unispal.un.org\/pdfs\/E25DAE8E3CE54FB5852560E50079C708.pdf\" style=\"color:#0000ff;text-align:justify;padding-top:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">Security Council resolution 425 (1978)<\/a><span style=\"color:#000000;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">. They undermine stability and create a climate of tension in the region.<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:justify;padding-top:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;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. <\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:right;padding-top:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">(<i>&nbsp;Signed<\/i>) S&#233;lim <strong>Tadmoury<\/strong><br \/>\nAmbassador<br \/>\nPermanent Representative<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:center;padding-top:11px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Times New Roman, serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">&#8212;&#8211;<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Letter dated 13 February 2002 from the Permanent Representative of Lebanon to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General &nbsp;&nbsp;I should like to inform you that there were 44 Israeli aerial, terrestrial and maritime violations of Lebanese sovereignty during the month of January 2002, broken down as follows: &nbsp;(a)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Twenty-three aerial violations by Israeli warplanes; &nbsp;(b)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Nine <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-177331\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[897,933],"document-category":[2841],"document-source":[1365,1362],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[6156,1769,1857],"entity":[1985,1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-177331","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","country-israel","country-lebanon","document-category-letter","document-source-general-assembly","document-source-security-council","document-subject-agenda-item","document-subject-armed-conflict","document-subject-incidents","entity-state","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/177331","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\/177331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=177331"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=177331"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=177331"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=177331"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=177331"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=177331"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=177331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}