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INFO ARAB ISRAELI COLLECTIVE
ARAB LEAGUE COLLECTIVE
EUROPEAN POLITICAL COLLECTIVE
UN SECURITY COUNCIL COLLECTIVE

UNCLAS USUN NEW YORK 000440 
 
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SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PREL PTER UNSC SY LE
SUBJECT: SECURITY COUNCIL ADOPTS RESOLUTION 1757 ON LEBANON 
TRIBUNAL 
 
¶1. (U) THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL VOTED 10-0-5 ON MAY 30 TO 
ADOPT RESOLUTION 1757, WHICH DECIDES UNDER THE COUNCIL'S 
CHAPTER VII AUTHORITY TO BRING INTO EFFECT THE SPECIAL 
 
 
 
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TRIBUNAL FOR LEBANON.  RUSSIA, CHINA, QATAR, SOUTH AFRICA, 
AND INDONESIA ABSTAINED FROM VOTING.  THE U.S., FRANCE, UK, 
BELGIUM, SLOVAKIA, AND ITALY CO-SPONSORED THE RESOLUTION AND 
CONGO, GHANA, PERU, AND PANAMA ALSO VOTED IN FAVOR.  DURING 
THE MEETING, CO-SPONSOR PERMREPS JOINED AMBASSADOR KHALILZAD 
IN WELCOMING THE ADOPTION OF THE RESOLUTION AS A MEANS TO 
PREVENT IMPUNITY FOR POLITICAL ASSASSINATIONS AND DETER 
FUTURE VIOLENCE IN LEBANON.  THOSE DELEGATIONS THAT ABSTAINED 
REAFFIRMED SUPPORT FOR THE PURSUIT OF JUSTICE IN THE 
ASSASSINATION OF FORMER LEBANESE PRIME MINISTER RAFIQ HARIRI, 
BUT OBJECTED TO THE USE OF CHAPTER VII IN RESOLUTION 1757 AND 
TO THE "INTERFERENCE" OF THE COUNCIL IN LEBANON'S INTERNAL 
PARLIAMENTARY RATIFICATION PROCESS.  ALTHOUGH PERU VOTED IN 
FAVOR OF THE RESOLUTION, THE PERUVIAN PERMREP CAUTIONED THAT 
BRINGING THE BILATERAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE UN AND THE GOL 
INTO EFFECT "SHOULD NOT CONSTITUTE A PRECEDENT BEYOND THIS 
PARTICULAR CASE."  ACTING LEBANESE FOREIGN MINISTER TARIQ 
MITRI THANKED THOSE DELEGATIONS THAT SUPPORTED RESOLUTION 
1757 AS WELL AS THOSE THAT ABSTAINED FOR ALLOWING THE 
TRIBUNAL TO BECOME A REALITY.  HE URGED THE LEBANESE PEOPLE 
 
 
 
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TO SEIZE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE TRIBUNAL AS AN OPPORTUNITY TO 
ACHIEVE NATIONAL RECONCILIATION. 
 
¶2. (U) THE FULL TRANSCRIPT OF THE MAY 30 SECURITY COUNCIL 
MEETING ON THE ADOPTION OF RESOLUTION 1757 CAN BE FOUND ON 
THE UN WEBSITE BY FOLLOWING LINKS FOR PEACE & SECURITY, THE 
SECURITY COUNCIL, AND MEETINGS.  THE DIRECT LINK FOR THE PDF 
TRANSCRIPT OF THE MEETING IS 
KHALILZAD