Reply #5: Talks over IDF's final withdrawal from Lebanon to resume next week: report

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Talks over Israel Defense Forces ' (IDF) final withdrawal from the split Lebanese town of Ghajar are to resume next week, the Jerusalem Post reported on Friday.

The report said the IDF will hold talks with UNIFIL, the UN peacekeepers, next week, and IDF officials were optimistic on a solution that will be found to remove Israel's final military presence from southern Lebanon.

Israel's 34-day-long conflict with the Lebanese Hezbollah militia ended in mid-August under UN Resolution 1701 which called on the IDF to fully withdraw from Lebanon.

Nearly two weeks after the IDF withdrew almost all its forces from southern Lebanon, the implementation of Resolution 1701 has been held up by an Israeli refusal to withdraw troops from the northern part of Ghajar, a town split down the middle by the Blue Line, the international border between Israel and Lebanon.

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200610/13/eng20061013_311613.html