BEIRUT: Lebanon yesterday rejected a call by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for peace talks and demanded that Israel withdraw from the Shebaa Farms area in southern Lebanon. “There are pending bilateral issues between Lebanon and Israel which are governed by international resolutions which Israel must respect ... and which cannot be the object of political negotiations,” a government statement said. “Israel ... must respect Lebanon’s sovereignty over its territory and its water, release prisoners and provide maps on mines and cluster bombs” left in Lebanon during past conflicts, it said. ...
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BEIRUT: Lebanon yesterday rejected a call by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for peace talks and demanded that Israel withdraw from the Shebaa Farms area in southern Lebanon. “There are pending bilateral issues between Lebanon and Israel which are governed by international resolutions which Israel must respect ... and which cannot be the object of political negotiations,” a government statement said. “Israel ... must respect Lebanon’s sovereignty over its territory and its water, release prisoners and provide maps on mines and cluster bombs” left in Lebanon during past conflicts, it said. ...