Syria backs withdrawal talks, but ...
NZPA-Reuter Beirut Syria has approved Lebanese-Israeli troop withdrawal talks due to start on Monday under the auspices of the United Nations, but has refused to assure security for Israel’s northern border. “If any group wants to operate across Syrian lines we will not stop it,” said the
Syrian first vice-president, Mr Abdel Halim Khaddam after talks yesterday with Lebanese leaders. Mr Khaddam, who left for Damascus last evening, said that Syria backed the United Nations-sponsored talks between Lebanese and Israeli Army officers as long as they ended in Israel’s unconditionally
withdrawing its estimated 12,000 troops from south Lebanon. Israel has demanded Syrian guarantees that its army will not advance in eastern Lebanon or allow guerrilla attacks across its lines when Israeli troops leave. It also wants the proIsraeli militia, the South
Lebanon Army, to keep control of a border strip, but Syria and Lebanon both reject any role for the Chris-tian-led S.L.A. Mr Khaddam said that if Israel posed conditions, the Lebanese would unify, “Toback the national resistance in the south to confront the Israelis with a sole option, that of withdrawal.”
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