Hezbollah a ‘threat to regional peace’: UN
(AFP)
8 May 2008
8 May 2008
UNITED NATIONS - Hezbollah's separate paramilitary infrastructure across Lebanon contributes to the erosion of the state's monopoly on the use of force and represents a
UN Middle East envoy Terje Roed Larsen told the Security Council that Hezbollah, the powerful Iranian-backed Shiite militia, 'maintains a massive paramilitary infrastructure separate from the state.'
He added that this had 'an adverse effect' on the Lebanese government's monopoly on the use of force and 'constitutes a threat to regional peace and security.'
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