SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES RESTRAINT FOLLOWING EXCHANGES OF FIRE
ACROSS SOUTHERN LEBANON’S ‘BLUE LINE’
The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:
The Secretary-General is very concerned at the exchanges of fire across the Blue Line in southern Lebanon, initiated from Lebanese territory, which have been reported today.� The Shab’a Farms area has been quiet for some months, and the Secretary-General urges the parties involved to avoid further actions which will increase the tensions in this sensitive and volatile area.
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