(MENAFN) The committee passed the draft titled "Oil slick on Lebanese shores" in a recorded vote of 158 in favor and 9 against, with 6 abstentions.
The motion, submitted by Palestine on behalf of the Group of 77 developing countries and China, called on Israel to assume responsibility and rapidly pay Lebanon and Syria for damages and the costs of repairing the environmental disaster caused by the regime's bombing of the Jiyeh power station south of Beirut in mid-July, 2006.Spoiled tanks at the power plant leaked up to 30,000 tonnes of oil into the eastern Mediterranean Sea.
A 10-kilometer-wide oil slick also covered the entire Lebanese coastline and parts of the Syrian shore and threatened Turkey and Cyprus. Lebanon's representative to the assembly, speaking after the vote, said the approval of the resolution affirmed the international community's will to uphold international law and the UN Charter.
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