General Assembly Sixtieth session Agenda item 14 The situation in the Middle East Security Council Sixty-first year Identical letters dated 4 May 2006 from the Chargé d’affaires a.i. of the Permanent Mission of Lebanon to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General and the President of the Security Council On instructions from my Government, I transmit to you herewith a detailed statistical table showing the Israeli violations of Lebanese sovereignty which occurred during April 2006, i.e., a total of 51 violations (see annex). These violations are in contravention of the relevant Security Council resolutions, the latest of which is resolution 1655 (2006), and go against your repeated calls for their cessation, most recently in your report of 18 January 2006 (S/2006/26). Lebanon counts on the United Nations to compel Israel to desist from those violations, which constitute a threat to international peace and security, and holds Israel responsible for any consequences to which those acts may give rise. I should be grateful if you would have this letter and its annex circulated as a document of the General Assembly, under agenda item 14, and of the Security Council. (Signed) Caroline Ziadeh Chargé d’affaires a.i. Annex to the identical letters dated 4 May 2006 from the Chargé d’affaires a.i. of the Permanent Mission of Lebanon to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General and the President of the Security Council Statistical table showing Israeli violations of Lebanese sovereignty during April 2006 Land violations Air violations Sea violations Military acts of aggression Field violations Breaches Total violations Military jet Reconnaissance Helicopter Total Crossing of territorial waters, artillery fire and shooting of flares and firebombs over territorial waters Air raids, artillery shelling, shelling of military positions and important posts, attacks on and killing of civilians Gunfire, launching of firebombs, dropping of artillery missiles, infiltration and crossing of international borders Threats and displaying of weapons, bulldozing of soil, placing of barbed wire and setting up of installations inside Lebanese territory - 8 9 4 21 11 - 12 7 51   \* MERGEFORMAT 2 \* MERGEFORMAT 2 United Nations A/60/837–S/2006/277 General Assembly Security Council Distr.: General 4 May 2006 English Original: Arabic 06-33949 (E) 050506 050506 *0633949* A/60/837 S/2006/277 A/60/837 S/2006/277