France’s foreign minister said one of the main tasks of the U.N. force in Lebanon would be enforcing the weapons embargo at Lebanon’s borders. Philippe Douste-Blazy’s comments followed Syrian President Bashar Assad’s warning that deploying a multinational force on the border between Syria and Lebanon would be interpreted as a hostile act.
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