UN Security Council resolution 1757

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The Resolution 1757 of the UN Security Council is a resolution on the situation in the Middle East that the United Nations Security Council adopted on 30 May 2007 at its 5685th meeting, where, however, China and Russia - both Security Council members with veto power - as well as Qatar , Indonesia and South Africa . The resolution was tabled by France , the United Kingdom and the United States .

With the resolution, the body decided that - in accordance with the internationally binding treaty previously concluded between the United Nations and Lebanon - the international tribunal to indict and convict those responsible for the attack on the vehicle convoy of the former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq al-Hariri and twenty-two additional persons are set up in accordance with Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations , unless Lebanon independently constitutes the tribunal by June 10, 2007. The Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora had asked for this step because the Lebanese National Assembly had not been convened by the parliamentary speaker for months and therefore the necessary laws could not be passed.

The UN ambassadors of China and Russia, Wang Guangya and Vitaly Churkin , had warned at the meeting that the resolution represented interference in internal Lebanese affairs and thus set a precedent and contributed to the internal political division in Lebanon between the pro-Western government under Prime Minister Siniora and the Hezbollah- led pro- Syrian opposition. The British UN ambassador, Emyr Jones Parry, sees no interference in the resolution, but rather an appropriate response from the Security Council to a request from the Lebanese government.

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