Lebanon
Senator Lyn Allison travelled with Laurie Ferguson, ALP member for Reid, to Lebanon in October 2006 to see first-hand the damage done to the infrastructure of the country, particularly in south Beirut and many towns in southern Lebanon.
While in Lebanon Senator Allison met with Lebanese President, Emile Lahoud, Prime Minister Fouad Siniora, Speaker Nabih Berri, General Aoun, Foreign Minister Fawzi Salloukh, members of parliament and local government and many people in Lebanon.
REPORT: Visit to Lebanon
1 - 8 October 2006
Senator Lyn Allison, Leader, Australian Democrats
Mr Laurie Ferguson, Federal Member for Reid, ALP
Download the report [563kb pdf] |
Australia could assist in this humanitarian crisis by:
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Demanding from Israel, maps of where cluster bombs were dropped in the last hours of the conflict and of landmines previously planted. |
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Assisting the UN by providing more munitions experts to assist with the location and removal of an estimated 1.25 million cluster ‘bomblets’, up to 30% of which did not explode. |
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Pressing for UN Resolutions to be adhered to, including return of Shebaa farms to Lebanon, liberation of prisoners and cessation of violations of Lebanese airspace and territorial waters. |
Links
SAMIDOUN
A grassroots collective that provides relief to the internally displaced people who had fled Southern Lebanon and the southern suburbs of Beirut . They have very informative maps of locations that were bombed. |
The website: www.samidoun.org
The map of sites bombed: maps.samidoun.org |
Democrats action on Lebanon & the Middle East
MATTERS OF PUBLIC INTEREST: Lebanon - Senator Lyn Allison, 8 November 2006
QUESTIONS ON NOTICE: Cluster Bombs - Senator Lyn Allison, 3 November 2006
MOTION: Conflict in Israel and Lebanon - Senator Lyn Allison, 6 September 2006
MOTION: Settlement of the Arab-Israeli conflict - Senator Lyn Allison
17 October 2006
SPEECH: The Middle East - Senator Lyn Allison
10 Aug 2006
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