Lebanon requested here today an “urgent meeting” of the Security Council “to consider the continuing acts of aggression and abusive practices of Israeli occupying forces in southern Lebanon, the western Bekaa and the Rashaya district.”
The request, in a letter to this month’s President of the Security Council, Ambassador Natarajan Krishnan of India, was made by the Lebanese Ambassador to the UN, M. Rachid Fakhoury.
According to a UN spokesman, members of the Security Council will start tomorrow informal consultations on the Lebanese request. An official meeting of the Security Council will probably be held toward the end of the week or at the beginning of next week, diplomats here said.
The Lebanese request follows tough measures taken by the IDF against Shiite terrorists. According to reports from Lebanon, Israeli troops besieged at least nine Shiite villages in south Lebanon in an effort to cut down the number of attacks on Israeli forces.
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