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size=+1>LEBANON-SYRIA</FONT><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"
color=#9c3632 size=+1><STRONG>: </STRONG></FONT><FONT
face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color=#3a3838 size=+1>Russia Opposes UN
Action on Syria</FONT><BR><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"
color=#9c3632 size=-1><EM>British Broadcasting Corporation</EM></FONT><BR><FONT
face=Arial color=#3a3838 size=2>Moscow says it will block any UN effort to
impose sanctions on Damascus over its alleged role in the assassination of
former Lebanese leader Rafik Hariri. The UN Security Council is considering a
plan - drafted by France, the US and UK - to threaten Syria with sanctions.
Russia, a long-term ally of Syria and a permanent Security Council member, has
the power to veto any draft resolution. Syria has rejected a UN report that
accuses it of plotting Hariri's death and blocking an investigation into it. Its
ambassador to the UN said the team led by German investigator Detlev Mehlis was
guilty of bias and some countries were fanning "the flames of hatred against
Syria". The draft UN resolution proposed by France, the UK and US urges Syria to
arrest any of its nationals seen by UN investigators as suspects in the Hariri
assassination. The document says that the UN Security Council intends to
consider "further measu res", including possible sanctions, if Syria does not
fully co-operate with the inquiry. These sanctions are not spelled out. The
draft would also impose an asset freeze and travel ban on anyone considered a
suspect in the UN inquiry. It also says that Mr Mehlis and his team should be
allowed to "interview Syrian officials or other individuals" described as
"relevant to the inquiry"</FONT><BR><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"
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size=+1>LEBANON-PALESTINE</FONT><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"
color=#9c3632 size=+1><STRONG>: </STRONG></FONT><FONT
face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" color=#3a3838 size=+1>Lebanon Army Encircles
Pro-Syria Palestinian Bases</FONT><BR><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"
color=#9c3632 size=-1><EM>Reuters AlertNet</EM></FONT><BR><FONT face=Arial
color=#3a3838 size=2>Lebanese troops and tanks encircled military bases
controlled by Damascus-backed Palestinian militants near the border with Syria,
witnesses said on Wednesday. They said the army had set up a checkpoint at the
border village of Sultan Yacoub in the eastern Bekaa Valley, where the
pro-Syrian <A
href="http://www.humansecuritygateway.info/data/item148459058/view"><EM>Popular
Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC)</EM></A> runs a
bunker dug into the hills. Army commando units and tanks also deployed in force
along other parts of the remote border where suspected Palestinian gunmen shot
dead a civilian army contractor on Tuesday. A security source said the army had
tightened its grip along the border and around the Palestinian camps and
outposts weeks ago but was on heightened alert after the killing of the
contractor, who was part of a team surveying the border. The issue of armed
pro-Syrian Palestinia n groups in Lebanon has moved to centre stage after a U.N.
Security Council resolution last year demanded Syrian troops withdraw from
Lebanon and all militia disarm. Syria ended its 29-year military presence in
Lebanon in April, but military outposts run by militant Palestinian groups
backed by Damascus still dot strategic hilltops and remote valleys along the
rugged frontier and south of Beirut.</FONT><BR><FONT
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