World Lebanese Cultural Union
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Office of the world President
550 South Hill street, Suite 715A – Los Angeles, CA 90013 – USA
Office: 1-800-700-WLCU or 213-629-9282 – Cell 909-630-2575 Fax 213-629-2130
July 25, 2006
In reaction to the latest tragic developments in Lebanon and after consultation with members of the World Council, the World Lebanese Cultural Union is adopting the following position:
1. We denounce the violations against Lebanon’s sovereignty by all parties involved in the fighting on its soil. Lebanon remains the proxy battlefield of Iran, Syria and Israel while its people are bearing the brunt with their suffering.
2. We denounce the role of Iran and Syria in dictating the war and peace decisions in Lebanon.
3. We demand an immediate halt to the Israeli shelling on civilian targets and the infrastructure of the country.
4. We call for a lasting cease-fire that should produce a permanent peace rather than a temporary remedy as we support reinforcing the UN forces with NATO troops to impose stability, simultaneous with the deployment of Lebanese troops into southern Lebanon.
5. We demand the immediate and full enforcement of the UNSC Resolution 1559 calling for the disarmament of all armed groups, namely Hizbollah and the Palestinians, and the deployment of the Lebanese army to assert its role all over the Lebanese territory.
6. We support the Lebanese Government in its political, economic and humanitarian efforts to cope with the current situation.
7. As supplies of medicines are tight at many hospitals and fuel is slowly running out, we call for immediate humanitarian relief efforts for the displaced and the refugees in temporary shelters.
8. We stress retracing the borders between Lebanon and Syria and to reach a United Nations sponsored solution for the Chebaa farms.
9. We reiterate our demand to release the Lebanese detainees in Syrian and Israeli jails.
10. We stress the need to revert to the 1949 Armistice Agreement.
11. We Consider the kidnapping of the Israeli soldiers and the timing of such an operation as part of an Iranian agenda to divert the world attention from its nuclear program while galvanizing the cause of radical Islamism in the entire region, and a Syrian attempt to derail the Lebanese National Dialogue, the International Tribunal and the investigations related to the assassination of the late Prime Minister Hariri, and a message from the Assad regime who promised to destroy Lebanon if his troops withdrew from the country.
Anise Garabet George Abi Raad
World President World Secretary General
