NCRI – U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged in a report this week to the Security Council Hezbollah to withdraw its fighters from Syria and voiced concern of threats to import violence into Lebanon in response to the Lebanese group’s actions in the Arab state.
According to the report by Daily Star, he also called on the government and Lebanese Army to prohibit Hezbollah from obtaining weapons beyond the control of the state.
“I reiterate my call on [Hezbollah] and all other concerned parties not to engage in any militant activity inside or outside of Lebanon, consistent with the requirements of the Taif Agreement and Security Council Resolution 1559,” he said in his semi-annual report on the implementation of UNSCR 1559.
The report, submitted Thursday, is Ban’s 18th to the Security Council on the implementation of UNSCR 1559, which was adopted in 2004 and calls on Lebanon to establish its sovereignty over the country, foreign forces to withdraw and Lebanese and non-Lebanese militias to disband.
“I am also deeply concerned at the acknowledged increased participation in the fighting in the Syrian Arab Republic by [Hezbollah] and the risk of spillover in Lebanon,” the U.N. chief said in the report, a copy of which was obtained by The Daily Star Friday.
