Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad ( pictured) said Hezbollah should "operate within the law," stop challenging the legitimate government of Lebanon and support election of a president. He said Syria should delineate its border with Lebanon and establish diplomatic relations with its neighbor.
"Absent those kinds of developments, the council will have to confront these challenges and deal with the problem by taking appropriate steps," he told reporters.
Such steps could be a new U.N. Security Council resolutions or sanctions, he said.
In a related development the White House also demanded that Lebanon's Hezbollah group "stop their disruptive activities" .
"Hezbollah needs to make a choice: Be a terrorist organization or be a political party, but quit trying to be both. They need to stop their disruptive activities now," said US national security council spokesman Gordon Johndroe.
Tags: Hezbollah, Lebanon, source: Reuters, UN, Ya Libnan
