Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Miqati called on the international community at the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday to look at Lebanon as a beacon of hope and a message of freedom and pluralism.

Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Miqati called on the international community at the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday to look at Lebanon as a beacon of hope and a message of freedom and pluralism.

During his speech delivered Thursday, Miqati announced that “Lebanon is committed to the rules of stability and security in its south and confirms its respect for Resolution 1701 the UN Security Council. But Israel - and since the issuance of this decision in 2006 - continues its violations of Lebanese sovereignty by air, sea and land, which exceeded the number of nine thousand breaches.”

The Lebanese Premier stated that the Zionist entity is imposing limits to UNIFIL's freedom of action while threatening the security of its members, and violating once again international resolutions specifically 1701.

He urged the international community to pressure the Zionist entity of occupation to immediately withdraw from the occupied northern part of Ghajar, Shebaa farms and Kfarshouba hills.

Miqati also reiterated commitment to defend Lebanon's exclusive economic area and maritime borders “pursuant to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, and on our right to extract natural wealth and resources."

Regarding the Syrian crisis, the prime minister told world leaders that “the security consequences of the Syrian crisis threaten peace and stability in the Middle East and specifically in Lebanon,” adding that “the international community must exert more efforts in order to assure political consensus among Syrian parties to end violence that is claiming hundreds of innocent lives each day.”

“Lebanon reaffirms its disassociation policy on both the political and security levels in order to maintain stability and avoid related consequences and risks,” he told the 67th General Assembly session at the U.N. headquarters in New York.

Stressing that Lebanon did not dissociate itself from providing humanitarian support to the displaced Syrian migrants, Miqati urged that “Lebanon alone cannot handle the increasing number of displaced migrants, as international support and assistance on all levels is much needed.”

“Our region is still striving to cope with the dramatic consequences that followed the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948 and its ongoing occupation of Arab territories and its continued violations of International Law and United Nations resolutions,” Miqati said, calling for a peaceful solution for the Iranian nuclear issue, stressing the right of peoples to acquire nuclear power for civilian purposes away from selectivity and double standards afflicting several regions of the world in general and in the Middle East in particular."

He also urged the U.N. to further the right of the Palestinian people to return to their homeland and achieve an independent Palestinian state with al-Quds (Jerusalem) as its capital.

“Peace along with freedom and justice are the pillars for attaining both security and stability and will pave the way towards the eradication of oppression, extremism, and terrorism in our world. Stability cannot occur without a Palestinian spring through the full implementation of the Palestinians right to self-determination on their land,” the Lebanese Premier concluded.