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Article: Lebanon Submits Documents on Shebaa Farms to U.N.
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- May 19, 2000
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Lebanese Prime Minister Salim Hoss on Friday submitted documents
to the United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan in an attempt to
prove Lebanon's claim over the controversial farms.
Lebanese National News Agency reported that the six documents,
drawn from the archives of Lebanese Foreign Ministry and Syrian
Foreign Ministry in 1946 and 1947, deals with Lebanon and Syria's
joint exploitation of the fertile farms.
Shebaa Farms, seized by Israel from Lebanon in the 1967 Middle
East war, are located on the Lebanese side of Mount Hermon.
Mount Hermon is Syria's highest ...