From
AP and Jerusalem Post
The United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 1701 Friday evening, calling for a cessation of hostilities between Hizbullah and Israel.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was expected recommend to the cabinet that it accept the UNSC resolution at its weekly meeting Sunday.
The agreement was expected to go into effect by Monday morning.
However, Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations Dan Gillerman told the UNSC that unless the means to enforce the resolution were to be defined, "We will be back [in the UNSC], if not in a week, then in a month or a year, facing an even greater tragedy."
He warned that Hezbollah would be embolded by the United Nations' lack of decisiveness and would undoubtedly be resupplied with even more deadly weapons.
The resolution authorizes the deployment of 15,000 UN peacekeepers in south Lebanon in support of Lebanese army forces, which are to move into the region and replace Hizbullah in parallel with a withdrawal of Israeli forces.
Israel is not required to withdraw until the deployment of UN and Lebanese forces begins.
It explicitly requires Hezbollah to be disarmed south of the Litani River, and imposes an arms embargo on the organization, to be enforced by the strengthened UNIFIL force.
It also calls for the "unconditional release" of the two IDF soldiers captured July 12, but does not make a direct demand for their freedom.
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Text on the UN Cease-fire Resolution on Conflict in Lebanon
