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UN: SECURITY
COUNCIL EXTENDS UN OBSERVER FORCE IN GOLAN HEIGHTS:
21/6/2007 (MaximsNews.com,
U.N.)
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UNITED NATIONS - / www.MaximsNews.com@
U.N./
- 21
June 2007 –
The Security Council yesterday extended for a
further six months the mandate of the UN force monitoring the long-standing
ceasefire between Israel and Syria in the Golan Heights.
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In a
unanimously adopted resolution, the 15-member Council decided to renew the
mandate of the UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF)
until 31 December 2007, as recommended by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in
his latest report
on the Force’s activities.
While
acknowledging that the situation in the Israel-Syria sector has remained
generally quiet, Mr. Ban said he considered the continued presence of the
1,000-strong Force essential.
He
added that the situation in the region was likely to remain tense “unless
and until a comprehensive settlement covering all aspects of the Middle East
problem can be reached.”
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The
Force has, for the past 33 years, supervised the disengagement accord between
Syrian and Israeli forces after the 1973 war.
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