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[Walid Georges Chamoun]

LEBANON-SYRIA: China, Russia, Algeria Object To Draft Resolution on Syria
Washington Post
Chinese, Russian and Algerian diplomats on Wednesday strongly opposed a U.S.-backed draft resolution threatening sanctions against Syria if it fails to provide extensive cooperation to U.N. investigators probing the slaying of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri. The United States, France and Britain introduced a resolution Tuesday that would immediately ban the travel and freeze the assets of Syrian officials suspected by U.N. investigators of participating in the Valentine's Day truck bombing that killed Hariri and 22 others. The measure threatens to impose economic sanctions on Syria if it fails to grant the U.N. team the right to go anywhere, see any document or interview any individual in Syria, including President Bashar Assad. State Department officials said Wednesday that they had received indications from at least 10 Security Council members, including China and Russia, that they would attend a meeting of foreign ministers on Monday to vote on the resolution. They expressed confidence that Beijing and Moscow, who wield veto power, would not block the resolution.
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LEBANON-PALESTINE: Lebanon Beefs Up Troops, Seeks Palestinian Talks
Reuters
Lebanon beefed up its forces around pro-Syrian Palestinian guerrilla bases on Thursday, but said it was seeking talks not armed conflict with militants over ending an armed presence outside refugee camps. A U.N. report, prepared by special envoy Terje Roed-Larsen to the U.N. Security Council, said on Wednesday arms were still flowing across the Syrian border to Palestinian groups and others in Lebanon. Lebanese army commandos had deployed in force along the border in response to the killing this week of a civilian army contractor by suspected Palestinian gunmen. The Lebanese army, hours before the report was released, also encircled positions maintained by the Syrian-backed Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC) in the Sultan Yacoub area in the eastern Bekaa Valley. Lebanese officials played down the signifi cance of the deployment, saying they wanted to talk, not fight the Palestinians. The Lebanese government says Palestinian groups must shut down the military posts they hold outside the dozen squalid refugee camps.
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. ARTICLE: U.N.: Arms Still Coming Over Syrian Border, Aljazeera (Oct. 27)
. ARTICLE: Lebanon army besieges Palestinian militants after killing, AFP (Oct. 26)
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