United Nations Security Council Resolution 1757

The Resolution 1757 of the UN Security Council is a resolution on the situation in the Middle East, adopted by the United Nations Security Council on 30 May 2007 at its 5685 session, however with China and Russia -. Both members of the Security Council with veto power - and Qatar, Indonesia and South Africa included. The resolution was introduced by France, the United Kingdom and the United States.

By means of Resolution, the Panel decided that - according to the international legally binding contract, which was concluded earlier between the United Nations and Lebanon - the international tribunal for the prosecution and conviction of those responsible of the attack on the convoy of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq al -Hariri and twenty-two other persons shall be established under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations, where Lebanon is not self- constituted, the Tribunal until 10 June 2007. The Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora had asked for this step, as the Lebanese National Assembly had not convened for months by the Speaker of Parliament and therefore the necessary legislation could not be passed.

The UN ambassadors of China and Russia, Wang Guangya and Vitaly Churkin had warned at the meeting warned that the resolution constituted an interference in internal Lebanese affairs and thus a precedent and contributes to the internal political divisions in Lebanon between the pro-Western government of Prime Minister Siniora and deepen the pro-Syrian opposition led by Hezbollah. The British Ambassador Emyr Jones Parry UN sees However, in Resolution no interference, but an adequate response of the Security Council on a request from the Lebanese government.