August 17, 2006

Press Encounter with Deputy Secretary-General Mark Malloch Brown after meeting with troop-contributing countries

http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs//2006/dsgsm292.doc.htm

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How terrorism wins at the UN. Start a war. Demand a ceasefire as soon as the other side strikes back. Stash your weapons among a civilian population for another day and plan your next war. UN response? We will sit and watch one more time. Here is a clear admission from the UN Deputy Secretary-General that the UN-sponsored international force will not disarm Hizbollah: "the role of this force is no large-scale disarmament of Hizbollah." The only involvement of the UN force in disarming Hizbollah, says Malloch-Brown: "when the Lebanese Government and Hizbollah have agreed to disarm, and, therefore, the challenges...are...small groups trying to smuggle in arms, or carry arms...when confronted by our troops and if they try to forcefully resist disarmament, then we will indeed employ force ourselves to disarm them."