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FOREIGN POLICY – MIDDLE EAST & WAR CRIMES - 20 July 1999

FOREIGN POLICY – MIDDLE EAST & WAR CRIMES - 20 July 1999

Dr Julian Lewis: Does the Foreign Secretary welcome signs – according to reports in today's press – that in response to Israeli peace initiatives, the Syrian Government appear to be instructing Hezbollah to lay down its arms and stop waging its proxy war against Israel in the Lebanon? Is he concerned by reports that Hezbollah is apparently resisting those demands? In the context of any peace settlement between Israel and Syria, does he agree that in order to lay many of the ghosts of the past, it is important that the Syrian Government cease their decades of shelter of Alois Brunner, who, as the right hon. Gentleman will be aware, was Adolf Eichmann's henchman in charge of implementing the holocaust in France?