UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has invited world leaders, from government, finance, business, and civil society to Climate Summit 2014 this 23 September to galvanize and catalyze climate action[/caption]Apart from the Spanish UN peacekeeper, two Israeli soldiers died in the Wednesday exchange of fire, which occurred when Hezbollah attacked an Israeli military convoy on the border with Lebanon. The Israeli Defense Forces responded with artillery fire and an airstrike.
UNITED NATIONS, January 29 (Sputnik) UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has expressed deep regret overthe death ofa UN Peacekeeper fromSpain ina recent exchange offire betweenIsrael and Hezbollah.The United Nations said ina statement Wednesday that Ban Ki-moon "deeply regrets that a UN Interim Force inLebanon peacekeeper sustained serious injuries that resulted inhis death. The Secretary-General expresses his sincere condolences tothe family ofthe peacekeeper who was killed and his sympathies tothe Government and the people ofSpain".
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The United Nations also expressed concern over "violations ofthe 1974 Disengagement Agreement betweenIsrael and Syria", explaining that rockets were fired onWednesday from "the area oflimitation onthe Bravo side acrossthe ceasefire line".
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Apart fromthe UN peacekeeper, two Israeli soldiers died inthe Wednesday exchange offire, which occurred when Hezbollah attacked an Israeli military convoy onthe frontier withLebanon. The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) responded withartillery fire and an airstrike.
Hezbollah, a paramilitary and political organization originating inLebanon's Shiite population, was established inthe 1980s. The group's primary goal was military opposition toIsrael's occupation ofLebanon.
Hezbollah is considered a terrorist group bymany Western governments including Israel, the United States, the United Kingdom and many European states, butnot byRussia.
The Russian Foreign Ministry expressed grave concerns overthe escalating tensions inthe so-called Israel-Syria-Lebanon triangle onWednesday.
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