Resolution 1701 includes clear provisions and has a legal dimension, unlike the framework agreement sponsored by the United States, which provides for negotiations to implement each of its clauses; therefore merging the two will be difficult... Add that in the framework agreement there is no mention of foreign forces to implement it; there is mention of understandings between Lebanon and Israel, and there is a military appendix that speaks of a step by Lebanon in exchange for a step by Israel.
The article discusses international talks on forming an alternative security force to UNIFIL, whose mandate ends at the end of this year, to support the Lebanese army in implementi…