PARIS - When asked during an interview held Wednesday about the Lebanese demand to Israel to compensate the environmental damage caused by the Hebrew state in July war 2006, the joint spokesman of the French Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs responded that “in 2006 and 2007, the UN General assembly adopted (…) two resolutions in which the Secretary General was asked for reports on the environmental consequences after the Israeli bombing in July 2006 in Lebanon. The European Union supported these resolutions. And Lebanon has to determine the consequences it should give, before the competent UN bodies, to the report presented within the session of the General Assembly which has just started”.

The Lebanese request to Israel in terms of the compensation of the environmental damage caused in July 2006 was formulated by the Lebanese President Michel Suleiman Tuesday in New York, in the speech he made before the UN General Assembly. This request came after a UN report on the environmental damages of July 2006 war. This 34-day conflict lead by Israel against Hezbollah generated a devastating oil slick on the Lebanese coasts after the bombing of the Jiyeh power station by the Hebrew state.