Syria Denies Acceptance of European Border Guards Monitor

Syria Denies Acceptance of European Border Guards Monitor

Sunday, September 10, 2006 - 04:25 PM

CAIRO,  (SANA - Syrian News Agency)  Syria has denied acceptance of European

borders guards to supervise the Syrian-Lebanese borders.

 " The reports by some mass media that Syria has accepted that European

border guards monitor the Lebanese-Syrian borders are not true," Information

Minister Mohsen Bilal said Sunday.

" The phone call was made yesterday between President Bashar al-Assad and

Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi didn't discuss this troops or guards

topic, but the talks were on technical assistance that is expected to be

offered to the Syrian border guards," Bilal added in statement to the

Egyptian T.V.

" The UN 1701 resolution pertaining to halting the military acts between

Israel and Lebanon, didn't stipulate for deploying international troops on

the Syria-Lebanese borders," He clarified, pointing out that Israel is the

aggressor and that the Syrians and Lebanese are one family in two sovereign

countries.

He noted that the resolution clearly included the deployment of UNIFIL in

south Lebanon, emphasizing that no one can impose on Syria to accept

deployment of foreign forces on her borders with Lebanon,"

" Keeping security on the borders with Lebanon is a Syrian affair that

Syrian borders guards are responsible for," Bilal said, concluding by saying

that the " Lebanese army is responsible for  keeping security on the borders

with Syria.