BERLIN - Germany sees no need for a second UN resolution on a peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon as suggested by US President George W. Bush, a government spokesman said on Wednesday. Thomas Steg acknowledged that United Nations Security Council resolution 1701, passed unanimously on August 11 to establish a ceasefire between Israel and the Shiite Muslim militia Hezbollah, ”may have its faults”. But, he said, “the German government has always called for the implementation of this resolution” which stopped the month-long war.
“We have not had this resolution for very long and at the moment there are intensive international efforts to apply it, interpret it and somehow implement it,” he said. “The government is exclusively focused on that and for us, there is no reason to consider a second or another resolution,” he said.
| Guess the Germans won't be helping the EU out with any troops. |