Friday 3^rd November 2006 

H.E.  President of UN Security Council

The Permanent Mission of Peru to the United Nations

820 2nd Avenue Floor 16

New York, NY 10017

Tel: 212.687.3336  Fax: 212.972.6975

Re: WCCR  calls on UNSC to modify UNSCR 1701 and mandate  UNIFIL  with chapter 7 to protect the civil society of Lebanon.

Dear Mr President,

The World Council of the Cedars Revolution has repeatedly over the last weeks warned of the restlessness of the alliance of Hezbollah, Syria and Iran, who provoked a war with Israel that lasted 34 days and brought so much destruction to Lebanon,  that they would turn their ruthless attention and terrorist aggression against the democratically elected government of Lebanon, Lead by Prime Minister Fouad Siniora and his majority coalition parties.

We are very concerned about the dangerously vulnerable position of the Lebanese government, that it might find itself under attack, politically at first and militarily if it becomes necessary, by Hezbollah this terrorist militia and its ferocious allies inside Lebanon and outside.

The democratically elected government of Lebanon is in extreme danger of being overthrown. Our fear for the Lebanese Civil Society is that the Lebanese Army has been infiltrated with Syrian intelligence and military personnel.  The only force sufficiently capable of diverting such an attack is that of the International Forces in Lebanon. However, without the robust chapter 7 capabilities, the International Forces will become merely lame duck observers instead of the power house that they can be to avert a civil war and the toppling of the legitimate government of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora.

The World Council of the Cedars Revolution calls on the United Nations Security Council to hold an emergency meeting to modify UNSCR 1701 and empower the UNIFIL with UNSC Chapter 7 capabilities.

Failure by the UNSC to avert the collapse of a democratic government and a subsequent Civil War will empower further this heartless and merciless axis of evil into an act of ethnic and religious cleansing such the world has never before experienced.

We look with anxious anticipation, to your leadership and that of your Security Council to preserve and protect the democratic process in Lebanon, a founding member of the body under your Presidency; and to demonstrate once and for all that the UNSC is genuinely committed to the preservation and protection of the rule of law on the international stage.

Yours faithfully

The World Council of the Cedars Revolution

Joseph P Baini                      President                                                                              Australia

Dr Rachid Rahme                 Secretary General                                                               Lebanon

Eng. Tom Harb                      International Committee UNSCR 1559                              USA

Col. Charbel Barakat           Intelligence and Security Director                                      Canada

Eng. Toni Nissi                      UNSCR 1559 Coordinator                                                  Lebanon        

Dr Anis Karam                      President World Lebanese Cultural Union WLCU            USA

Eng. Fadi Bark                      Secretary General World Lebanese Cultural Union          USA

Attorney John Hajjar            Chairman International Relations WLCU                          USA

Attorney Claudia Chater      Legal Advisor UNSCR 1559                                                Brazil

Attorney Joanne Fakhre      President North American Continent WLCU                     USA

Kamal El Batal                     WCCR Human Rights Officer                                             Lebanon

Joseph Saouk                        WCCR  Officer                                                                    Sweden

Roni Doumit                          WCCR Coordinator                                                             Europe

Joseph Sokhen                      UNSCR 1559 Officer                                                           Lebanon

George Chaya                       Media Coordinator, UNSCR 1559 Officer                         Argentina

Snr Eng. Eblan Farris           WCCR Communications Director                                       USA