of about 2,000, straddles Lebanon and the Israeli-occupied Syrian Golan Heights, but Israel currently occupies both parts.
"I would very much hope that we can see progress in the next quarter, that I could come back here in October or November ... and we could record a successful result," Williams said after briefing the U.N. Security Council.
"By a successful result I would mean the complete withdrawal of the IDF (Israel Defense Forces) from the northern part of the village of Ghajar," Williams told reporters.
Israeli forces reoccupied the northern part of Ghajar during their 2006 war against Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Israeli newspapers have reported that the United States has been pressing Israeli Prime minister Netanyahu for a pullout.
Shebaa Farms of course is the number one issue for Lebanon but Williams believes this occupied border area is much less soluble in the short term.
Israel considers the Shebaa Farms area part of the Golan Heights, which it has occupied during the 1967 Middle East war.
Syria and Lebanon say the land is part of south Lebanon. But Syria has refused to provide the documentation requested by the UN and has refused to demarcate the borders before Israel withdraws.
On the issue of Israeli spying and the busting of the Israeli spy network by the Lebanese intelligence, Williams said : "If these allegations are confirmed in court, this would constitute a very serious violation of Lebanon's sovereignty and consequently undermine relevant Security Council resolutions,"
"As special representative of the secretary general, I am acutely conscious of the great unease and worry that this has caused among Lebanese," Williams added.
Thursday
10:22 OTV : Damascus frees Helmi Moussa, a Palestinian journalist working for As-Safir newspaper. He was arrested earlier today
10:10 pm Palestinain News Agency : Helmi Moussa was arrested by the Syrian police , because he was suspected of dealing with one of the Lebanese accused of spying for Israel.
08: 10 pm Hariri sources: The visit of the prime minister designate to Syria is not currently on the agenda
07:33 Hussein Khalil told al Manar: the Nasrallah-Hariri put the dialogue on the right track and more such meetings will follow
07:30pm Al Manar: president Suleiman advised minister Fneish his rejection of the media reports claiming his share are the delaying factor in forming the government
07:26pm Kouchner arrives in Beirut, says he will meet all leaders and Hezbollah representatives during his visit
04:30 pm Iranian police fired tear-gas on Thursday as hundreds of demonstrators defied warnings staged a march to commemorate the anniversary of bloody student unrest in 1999, witnesses said.
03:10pm The US government denied on Wednesday that it agreed to allow Israel to build about 2,500 housing units already under construction in settlements in the West Bank. "The report circulated in Israeli media is inaccurate," State Department spokesperson Ian Kelly said
03:02pm Syrian security services arrested Helmi Moussa, a Palestinian journalist working for As-Safir newspaper, on Sunday during a political conference he was attending in Syria, according to a statement by SKEYES, Samir Kassir foundation for the defense of media and cultural freedoms in the Arab world.
12:19pm Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Sfeir received MP Sami Gemayel in his summer residence in Diman.
11:55 Iranian Ambassador to Iraq Hassan Kazemi Qomi announced on Thursday that the US forces released the five Iranian diplomats abducted in Iraq in January 2007 and handed them over to the Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.
11:00 MP Samer Saadeh told New TV: Not a single cabinet in Lebanon’s history has been formed on the basis of proportional representation. We will adopt a stance if the ministerial statement legitimizes Hezbollah’s arms.
11:22 A hand grenade was tossed at the home of Mohammed al-Ghoutani, a Palestinian, at Ain el-Hilweh refugee camp, causing material damage.
10:30 MP Antoine Zahra told Future TV : MP Michel Aoun’s insistence on proportional representation is the beginning of his non-participation in cabinet because his demand for 7 out of 30 ministers leads to inefficiency.
10:47 Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah met with Telecommunications Minister Gebran Bassil. Talks focused on latest developments, consultations on cabinet formation and the next stage.
10:43 Israeli Intelligence officials are expecting Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s resignation soon, adding that he will call for early elections, according to Israeli newspaper Maariv
9:51 The Lebanese army intelligence confirmed that Israel handed over Yassine Abdel Latif Yassine to UNIFIL in Naqoura at dawn. The army is now questioning the man on his entry into Israel the day before.
08:40 French FM Bernard Kouchner will arrive in Beirut this afternoon and will head this evening to Beiteddine to attend a concert by French singer Charles Aznavour
8:30 MP Ammar Houry told VOL: We didn’t go back to square one in cabinet formation. The issue of veto power is from the past.
7:30 MP Alain Aoun told VOL: The Change and Reform bloc is with continuous contacts to form a new government which should come as soon as possible. Proportional representation is the best formula.
06:21 Barak: calm has returned to the northern border and in spite of that we cannot rest and be calm because ...the situation in the north is still volatile because Hezbollah continues to receive more arms
06:09 PM designate sources told "Al-Nahar:" Hariri's lines of communication are open to all and he is dealing with the issue in a calm and serious manner
06:06 Informed sources told "Al-Nahar:" There is a significant difference between the public declarations of support for facilitating the formation of the government and what is really going on behind the scenes
05:31 Sources of opposition told As Safir: It is in the interest of Hariri to form a government as soon as possible to benefit from the positive atmosphere following his selection as the PM designate
05:22 March 14 source told As Safir : There is now a break and we are waiting for the resumption of the Saudi Arabian - Syrian talks after the return of Syrian President Assad of his visit to Azerbaijan
Wednesday
10:10 pm Israel arrested the Lebanese citizen who had infiltrated the heavily guarded border between the two countries and taken for interrogation, the army said.
09:30pm French President Nicolas Sarkozy said at the opening of the G8 Summit in Italy that Syrian president Bashar Assad "kept the commitments" that he had promised France concerning Lebanon
08:50pm STL General Prosecutor Daniel Bellemare will receive treatment for an undisclosed illness while on vacation in Canada.
05:15 AP : A widespread computer attack that began July 4 knocked out the Web sites of the US Treasury Department, the Secret Service and other US agencies, and South Korean government sites also came under assault. North Korea is suspected of being behind the attacks
5:10pm Aoun: I want a proportional government which will guarantee real representation and enforce national unity.
04:25pm Soueid told AFP: Syria offered through its current contacts to sponsor a Lebanese - Lebanese conference in order to pretend that it is interested in inter Lebanese reconciliations
3:45pm The Constitutional Council has so far received a total of 11 contests to the outcome of the elections.
03:11 pm EU ambassador Patrick Laurent said after meeting with Geagea: lets hope the government will be formed very soon , because Lebanon is in need of many projects to help alleviate the suffering of the Lebanese people
02 :50 Fortune Magazine : After filing for bankruptcy, GM unveiled the PUMA, a two-seat vehicle being developed with Segway . The vehicle is capable of going 35 mph and traveling 35 miles between charges
02:33pm The Lebanese army and UNIFIL are at high alert following the fleeing of a 35 year old Lebanese citizen via Abbad border point in South Lebanon. Lebanon has detained during the past 3 months several suspects accused of spying for Israel
02:30 pm CNN: Google Inc. is planning to hit Microsoft Corp. where it really hurts by challenging the software giant's dominance in the world of computer operating systems. Google announced that it will begin offering its own operating system, called Chrome, in the second half of 2010.
2:25pm The March 14 general secretariat warned against efforts to interfere in Lebanon’s internal affairs under the slogan of “assistance.”
02 :25 pm : President Obama’s Moscow speech on Tuesday, billed as his third major foreign policy address after speeches in Cairo and Prague, was not shown live on any of the major Russian channels, to the White House’s disappointment. The Kremlin tightly controls Russian television, and it was not clear why officials chose to disregard the speech.
02:20 pm Obama: “It is very important for the world community to speak to countries like Iran and North Korea and encourage them to take a path that does not result in a nuclear arms race in places like the Middle East." He said following his meeting with Italian President Giorgio Napolitano.
02:15pm Patriarch Sfeir stressed to his visitors the importance of real reconciliation among Lebanese in order to defend their interests.
02:10pm MP Michel Moussa told OTV that deliberations over the government formation are ongoing and that the PM-designate is making significant efforts to discuss possible cabinet formulas with all Lebanese parties.
02:08 MTV : Eddy Abillamaa, Elie Karami, Elias Mukhaiber and Sarkis Sarkis will submit their sixth protest against the election results and so will Ghassan al Ashkar and Ghasan al Rahbani submit their protests against Sami Gemayel and Michel Murr
1:55 pm Reuters : Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono headed for victory in elections as results poured in on Wednesday, pointing the way to a five-year term of quickening economic reform.
1:52 pm CNN: Pope Benedict XVI, on the eve of the G8 global economic summit, lashed out at modern capitalism for being%2
