Lebanon called today on “all non-Lebanese forces” to leave Lebanon immediately and urged the Security Council to help achieve a cease-fire in view of the growing hostilities between various factions in Lebanon.
In a brief meeting of the Security Council this afternoon, which was convened at the request of Lebanon, Ambassador Ghassan Tueni, Special Envoy of Lebanon, said that all foreign forces in Lebanon are “equally unwelcome and all equally illegitimate.” He charged that Lebanon become “the arena for everyone’s war and everyone’s revolution.” He said that the withdrawal of Israeli troops from the Shouf mountains had triggered the escalation of the present hostilities. Tueni was the only speaker at today’s session.
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