Lebanon demands $10B from Israel
NZPA-Reuter Naqoura
Lebanon and Israel resumed talks yesterday on an Israeli withdrawal from south Lebanon. Beirut made detailed security proposals arid demanded reparations for damages during the 29month Israeli occupation. The Lebanese delegation chief, Brigadier-General Muhammad Haj, proposed an expanded United Nations peacekeeping role and deployment of the Lebanese Army in areas vacated by Israel, He ruled out any role for the Israeli-backed South Lebanese Army militia. General Haj called on Israel to pay ?USB to 10 billion in war reparations. Israel’s chief representative to the talks, delayed for one week, told the Lebanese that Israel’s “principal concern is achieving security arrangements that will be acceptable to us”. A statement released by the Israeli Army quoted Brigadier-General Amos Gilboa as saying that Israel “had no doubt Lebanon has sovereignty over every inch of its soil”. The two sides would meet again on Monday, a Lebanese 'spokesman said. Israel has an estimated force of 12,000 in south Lebanon and
has suffered high casualties from almost daily attacks, mostly from local Shi’ite Muslim villagers. The Israelis emphasised that they had every intention of withdrawing from Lebanon but that depended on achieving practical security arrangements for protecting its northern border settlements.
Israel wants to maintain air and naval surveillance of south Lebanon after a pull-back to stop Palestinian guerrillas from returning to the south.
General Haj rejected the demand and said that the Lebanese Navy would patrol the coastal waters while four mechanised brigades of the Lebanese Army would deploy in areas left by Israel. The two sides resumed the talks one week after their first meeting. Beirut suspended the negotiations after Israel’s arrest of four Shi’ite leaders who belong to the Amal movement of the Cabinet Minister Nablh Berri. Israel released three of the men on Thursday, and an Israeli military source told Reuter that interrogation of the fourth man, Mahmoud Faqih, was almost complete
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Press, 17 November 1984, Page 10
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