U.N. Probes Syria's Disobedience as Hizbullah's Drone Lands in NY
The U.N. Security Council convenes Monday to discuss the post-Arafat Middle East, with a particular focus on Syria's refusal to withdraw its army from Lebanon and Hizbullah's recent penetration of Israeli airspace by a spy plane without a pilot.
"Hizbullah's drone lands at Security Council," exclaimed an inspired page-one headline of a Beirut daily about the undetected espionage air foray into Israel's northern skies Nov. 7, which kindled fears of potential attacks on Israeli population centers by booby-trapped Hizbullah aircraft.
The Bush administration was reported to have conveyed to the 15 Security Council member-states "profound alarm" over the drone affair, a move that set the stage for closed-doors debate at the Council's regular monthly session at the U.N. headquarters in New York Monday evening.
The newly started 13th Beirut daily Al Balad said the U.S. was "seriously following up" the lack of any process on the ground to implement resolution 1559, which demands immediate total Syrian military pullout from Lebanon and a timetabled disarmament of Hizbullah.
It said the Americans were also keen about the new electoral law Premier Omar Karami's government has promised to promulgate upon the turn of the year. "The U.S. is bent on making sure the new law would not be tailored to Syria's measurements," Al Balad said.
The report came a day after An Nahar said the Western countries had made it plain to Lebanon and Syria that they would not be able to wriggle out of dictates of resolution 1559, calling the implementation of the resolution 'inescapable."
"Hizbullah's drone lands at Security Council," exclaimed an inspired page-one headline of a Beirut daily about the undetected espionage air foray into Israel's northern skies Nov. 7, which kindled fears of potential attacks on Israeli population centers by booby-trapped Hizbullah aircraft.
The Bush administration was reported to have conveyed to the 15 Security Council member-states "profound alarm" over the drone affair, a move that set the stage for closed-doors debate at the Council's regular monthly session at the U.N. headquarters in New York Monday evening.
The newly started 13th Beirut daily Al Balad said the U.S. was "seriously following up" the lack of any process on the ground to implement resolution 1559, which demands immediate total Syrian military pullout from Lebanon and a timetabled disarmament of Hizbullah.
It said the Americans were also keen about the new electoral law Premier Omar Karami's government has promised to promulgate upon the turn of the year. "The U.S. is bent on making sure the new law would not be tailored to Syria's measurements," Al Balad said.
The report came a day after An Nahar said the Western countries had made it plain to Lebanon and Syria that they would not be able to wriggle out of dictates of resolution 1559, calling the implementation of the resolution 'inescapable."
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