The Head of the UNIFIL forces stations in South Lebanon, Alan Pellegrini, on Tuesday conferred with Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Al-Sanyoura after contacts with other personalities in a bid to ease border tension with Israel. Speaking to reporters later, Pellegrini said his talks with the Prime Minister focused on "coordination efforts with Lebanese authorities over the situation in the south following Sunday's armed clashes" between Israel and Hezbollah as well as Palestinian militias.Meanwhile, a military source told KUNA that the situation in the south has returned to normal and that the Lebanese army patrols and those of the UNIFIl were again in action along the UN-drawn Blue Line separating Lebanon from the Jewish state.
UN Secretary-Genral Kofi Annan had sent a letter to Siniora, through Annan's personal representative Geir Pederson calling on the Lebanese government to "assume its responsibility in maintaining peace in the south. According to the UNIFIL, the clashes last Sunday were the "fiercest since the 2000 ones, which resulted in an Israeli withdrawal from the south."