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Security Council to Meet Again Today on Lebanese-israeli Dispute

August 18, 1969
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The United Nations Security Council will meet again tomorrow afternoon in an attempt to dispose of the Lebanese and Israeli counter-complaints made to the Council after Israeli planes bombed a guerrilla-controlled enclave on the slopes of Mount Hermon in Lebanese territory last Monday.

The Council met Friday morning and adjourned until tomorrow to give more time for consultations among the delegations on an agreed resolution or a consensus statement. In an earlier meeting last week, Charles W. Yost, the American representative, proposed the stationing of United Nations observers along the Lebanese-Israeli border. At the Friday meeting, Frederick A. Warner, the British representative, called for “reinforcement” of the UN truce machinery in that area.

Edouard Ghorra of Lebanon told the Council that UN observers would be “welcome” on Lebanese soil and accused Israel of obstructing the workings of the armistice machinery.

Ambassador Yosef Tekoah of Israel, replying, told the Council that Israel had had to act in self-defense against armed attacks by irregular terrorist forces from Lebanon. He said peace could be obtained today if Lebanon sat down at the table with Israel and if it abided scrupulously by the cease-fire.

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