Michel Sleiman, the President of Lebanon, has said that he will file a complaint with the United Nations Security Council against Israel for violating the airspace of the country. Israel has occupied Middle Eastern territories for over 65 years., a photo by Pan-African News Wire File Photos on Flickr.
Lebanon to file complaint with UN over Israeli air violations
Sun Jun 2, 2013 3:4PM GMT
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Lebanese President Michel Sleiman has tasked the country's foreign minister with filing a complaint with the United Nations over repeated Israeli violations of Lebanese airspace.
The order was issued on Sunday hours after Israeli warplanes conducted overflights over several parts of Lebanon, including the capital, Beirut.
"President Michel Sleiman tasked Foreign Minister Adnan Mansur with filing an urgent complaint to the United Nations about Israel's persistent airspace violations, including over all of Lebanon this morning, including the capital Beirut," said a statement by president's office.
Israel violates Lebanon’s airspace on an almost daily basis, claiming the flights serve surveillance purposes.
Lebanon’s government, the Hezbollah resistance movement, and the UN Interim Force in Lebanon, known as UNIFIL, have repeatedly condemned the overflights, saying they are in clear violation of the Lebanese sovereignty and UN Resolution 1701, which ended the Israeli war on Lebanon in 2006.
In May, the UN called on Israel to halt increased military air patrols over Lebanon after UNIFIL protested against a surge in Israeli flights over the country.
According to evidence-backed statistics submitted to the UN by the Lebanese government in 2009, Israel had violated the resolution over 7000 times "by crossing Lebanese airspace," waters, and border on an almost daily basis since the implementation of the resolution.
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