(31 May 2000) Natural Sound
Israeli TV has reported that U-N envoy Terje Roed-Larsen and Danny Yatom, a security advisor to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak have already agreed on the placement of the entire border between Israel and Lebanon.
The United Nations is seen to be continuing the process of verifying that Israel's troop withdrawal from Lebanon is complete, and that Israel holds no areas north of a 1923 colonial boundary.
Early on Wednesday Israeli construction workers were seen busy building the border fence which will provide the new boundary between Israel and Lebanon.
Again U-N personnel were out in force placing markers along the 1923 border.
Military officials did say that U-N officials completed marking the border along Chebaa farms, a strip of land near the Syrian border that both Lebanon and Syria say belongs to Lebanon.
But only a couple of days after the withdrawal, Israeli soldiers were seen training in the disputed area on the Lebanese side of the border in Chebaa farms by an APTN cameraman.
Shortly after filming began, the Israeli soldiers pulled back to the Israeli side.
Lebanon considers Chebaa farms part of its territory, a position supported by Syria.
But Israel says 90 percent of Chebaa farms is part of the Golan Heights, which was captured from Syria in the 1967 Middle East war.
The United Nations says the bulk of the area belongs to Syria and is therefore not being considered in the verification of the withdrawal.
But Israel recently dismantled positions in the area that apparently jutted out into Lebanon.
It was not clear whether the U-N markings differed from Israel's revised drawing of the border in Chebaa farms.
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