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AGREEMENT BETWEEN ISRAEL AND LEBANON MAY 17 1983
Following the Peace for Galilee Operation Israeli and
Lebanese negotiators met to discuss a treaty between the two
countries. The delegations held over 35 sessions
alternatively in Khalde Kiryat Shemona and Netanya starting
on 28 December. The agreement was finally signed on 17 May
following high-level US involvement including a ten day
shuttle diplomacy by Secretary of State Shultz. The main
features of the agreement include putting an end to the state
of war between Israel and Lebanon a mechanism for treaty
supervision military cooperation and the establishment of an
Israeli mission in Beirut.
Although the agreement was signed it was never ratified by
the Lebanese government due to strong Syrian opposition to
the treaty. The following is the text of the agreement and the
security annex:
AGREEMENT BETWEEN
THE GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL AND
THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF LEBANON
The Government of the State of Israel and the Government of the Republic
of Lebanon:
Bearing in mind the importance of maintaining and strengthening
international peace based on freedom equality justice and respect for
fundamental human rights;
Reaffirming their faith in the aims and principles of the Charter of the
United Nations and recognizing their right and obligation to live in
peace with each other as well as with all states within secure and
recognized boundaries;
Having agreed to declare the termination of the state of war between
them;
Desiring to ensure lasting security for both their States and to avoid
threats and the use of force between them;
Desiring to establish their mutual relations in the manner provided for
in this Agreement;
Having delegated their undersigned representative plenipotentiaries
provided with full powers in order to sign in the presence of the
representative of the United States of America this Agreement;
Have agreed to the following provisions:
ARTICLE 1
1. The Parties agree and undertake to respect the sovereignty political
independence and territorial integrity of each other. They consider the
existing international boundary between Israel and Lebanon inviolable.
2. The Parties confirm that the state of war between Israel and Lebanon
has been terminated and no longer exists.
3. Taking into account the provisions of paragraphs 1 and 2 Israel
undertakes to withdraw all its armed forces from Lebanon in accordance
with the Annex of the present Agreement.
ARTICLE 2
The Parties being guided by the principles of the Charter of the United
Nations and of international law undertake to settle their disputes by
peaceful means in such a manner as to promote international peace and
security and justice.
ARTICLE 3
In order to provide maximum security for Israel and Lebanon the Parties
agree to establish and implement security arrangements including the
creation of a Security Region as provided for in the Annex of the
present Agreement.
ARTICLE 4
1. The territory of each Party will not be used as a base for hostile or
terrorist activity against the other Party its territory or its
people.
2. Each Party will prevent the existence or organization of irregular
forces armed bands organizations bases offices or infrastructure
the aims and purposes of which include incursions or any act of
terrorism into the territory of the other Party or any other activity
aimed at threatening or endangering the security of the other Party and
safety of its people. To this end all agreements and arrangements
enabling the presence and functioning on the territory of either Party
of elements hostile to the other Party are null and void.
3. Without prejudice to the inherent right of self-defense in accordance
with international law each Party will refrain:
a. from organizing instigating assisting or participating in
threats or acts of belligerency subversion or incitement or any
aggression directed against the other Party its population or
property both within its territory and originating therefrom or in
the territory of the other Party.
b. from using the territory of the other Party for conducting a
military attack against the territory of a third state.
c. from intervening in the internal or external affairs of the other
Party.
4. Each Party undertakes to ensure that preventive action and due
proceedings will be taken against persons or organizations perpetrating
acts in violation of this Article.
ARTICLE 5
Consistent with the termination of the state of war and within the
framework of their constitutional provisions the Parties will abstain
from any form of hostile propaganda against each other.
ARTICLE 6
Each Party will prevent entry into deployment in or passage through
its territory its air space and subject to the right of innocent
passage in accordance with international law its territorial sea by
military forces armament or military equipment of any state hostile to
the other Party.
ARTICLE 7
Except as provided in the present Agreement nothing will preclude the
deployment on Lebanese territory of international forces requested and
accepted by the Government of Lebanon to assist in maintaining its
authority. New contributors to such forces shall be selected from among
states having diplomatic relations with both Parties to the present
Agreement.
ARTICLE 8
1. a. Upon entry into force of the present Agreement a Joint Liaison
Committee will be established by the Parties in which the United
States of America will be a participant and will commence its
functions. This Committee will be entrusted with the supervision of
the implementation of all areas covered by the present Agreement. In
matters involving security arrangements it will deal with unresolved
problems referred to it by the Security Arrangements Committee
established in subparagraph c. below. Decisions of this Committee
will be taken unanimously.
b. The Joint Liaison Committee will address itself on a continuing
basis to the development of mutual relations between Israel and
Lebanon inter alia the regulation of the movement of goods products
and persons communications etc.
c. Within the framework of the Joint Liaison Committee there will be
a Security Arrangements Committee whose composition and functions are
defined in the Annex of the present Agreement.
d. Subcommittees of the Joint Liaison Committee may be established as
the need arises.
e. The Joint Liaison Committee will meet in Israel and Lebanon
alternately.
f. Each Party if it so desires and unless there is an agreed change
of status may maintain a liaison office on the territory of the
other Party in order to carry out the above-mentioned functions
within the framework of the Joint Liaison Committee and to assist in
the implementation of the present Agreement.
g. The members of the Joint Liaison Committee from each of the
Parties will be headed by a senior government official.
h. All other matters relating to these liaison offices their
personnel and the personnel of each Party present in the territory
of the other Party in connection with the implementation of the
present Agreement will be the subject of a protocol to be concluded
between the Parties in the Joint Liaison Committee. Pending the
conclusion of this protocol the liaison offices and the
above-mentioned personnel will be treated in accordance with the
pertinent provisions of the Convention on Special Missions of
December 8 1969 including those provisions concerning privileges
and immunities. The foregoing is without prejudice to the positions
of the Parties concerning that Convention.
2. During the six-month period after the withdrawal of all Israeli armed
forces from Lebanon in accordance with Article 1 of the present
Agreement and the simultaneous restoration of Lebanese governmental
authority along the international boundary between Israel and Lebanon
and in the light of the termination of the state of war the Parties
shall initiate within the Joint Liaison Committee bona fide
negotiations in order to conclude agreements on the movement of goods
products and persons and their implementation on a non-discriminatory
basis.
ARTICLE 9
1. Each of the two Parties will take within a time limit of one year as
of entry into force of the present Agreement all measures necessary for
the abrogation of treaties laws and regulations deemed in conflict with
the present Agreement subject to and in conformity with its
constitutional procedures.
2. The Parties undertake not to apply existing obligations enter into
any obligations or adopt laws or regulations in conflict with the
present Agreement.
ARTICLE 10
1. The present Agreement shall be ratified by both Parties in conformity
with their respective constitutional procedures. It shall enter into
force on the exchange of the instruments of ratification and shall
supersede the previous agreements between Israel and Lebanon.
2. The Annex the Appendix and the Map attached thereto and the Agreed
Minutes to the present Agreement shall be considered integral parts
thereof.
3. The present Agreement may be modified amended or superseded by
mutual agreement of the Parties.
ARTICLE 11
1. Disputes between the Parties arising out of the interpretation or
application of the present Agreement will be settled by negotiation in
the Joint Liaison Committee. Any dispute of this character not so
resolved shall be submitted to conciliation and if unresolved
thereafter to an agreed procedure for a definitive resolution.
2. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph 1 disputes arising out
of the interpretation or application of the Annex shall be resolved in
the framework of the Security Arrangements Committee and if unresolved
shall thereafter at the request of either Party be referred to the
Joint Liaison Committee for resolution through negotiation.
ARTICLE 12
The present Agreement shall be communicated to the Secretariat of the
United Nations for registration in conformity with the provisions of
Article 102 of the Charter of the United Nations.
Done at Kiryat Shmona and Khaldeh this seventeenth day of May 1983 in
triplicate in four authentic texts in the Hebrew Arabic English and
French languages. In case of any divergence of interpretation the
English and French texts will be equally authoritative.
David Kimche Antoine Fattal
For the Government of the For the Government of the
State of Israel Republic of Lebanon
Witnessed by:
Morris Draper
For the Government of the
United States of America
ANNEX
SECURITY ARRANGEMENTS
1. Security Region
a. A Security Region in which the Government of Lebanon undertakes to
implement the security arrangements agreed upon in this Annex is
hereby established.
b. The Security Region is bounded as delineated on the Map attached
to this Annex in the north by a line constituting "Line A" and in
the south and east by the Lebanese international boundary.
2. Security Arrangements
The Lebanese authorities will enforce special security measures aimed at
detecting and preventing hostile activities as well as the introduction
into or movement through the Security Region of unauthorized armed men
or military equipment. The following security arrangements will apply
equally throughout the Security Region except as noted:
a. The Lebanese Army Lebanese Police Lebanese Internal Security
Forces and the Lebanese auxiliary forces (ANSAR) organized under
the full authority of the Government of Lebanon are the only
organized armed forces and elements permitted in the Security Region
except as designated elsewhere in this Annex. The Security
Arrangements Committee may approve the stationing in the Security
Region of other official Lebanese armed elements similar to ANSAR.
b. Lebanese Police Lebanese Internal Security Forces and ANSAR may
be stationed in the Security Region without restrictions as to their
numbers. These forces and elements will be equipped only with
personal and light automatic weapons and for the Internal Security
Forces armored scout or commando cars as listed in the Appendix.
c. Two Lebanese Army brigades may be stationed in the Security
Region. One will be the Lebanese Army Territorial Brigade stationed
in the area extending from the Israeli-Lebanese boundary to "Line B"
delineated on the attached Map. The other will be a regular Lebanese
Army brigade stationed in the area extending from "Line B" to "Line
A". These brigades may carry their organic weapons and equipment
listed in the Appendix. Additional units equipped in accordance with
the Appendix may be deployed in the Security Region for training
purposes including the training of conscripts or in the case of
operational emergency situations following coordination in
accordance with procedures to be established by the Security
Arrangements Committee.
d. The existing local units will be integrated as such into the
Lebanese Army in conformity with Lebanese Army regulations. The
existing local civil guard shall be integrated into ANSAR and
accorded a proper status under Lebanese law to enable it to continue
guarding the villages in the Security Region. The process of
extending Lebanese authority over these units and civil guard under
the supervision of the Security Arrangements Committee shall start
immediately after the entry into force of the present Agreement and
shall terminate prior to the completion of the Israeli withdrawal
from Lebanon.
e. Within the Security Region Lebanese Army units may maintain their
organic anti-aircraft weapons as specified in the Appendix. Outside
the Security Region Lebanon may deploy personal low and medium
altitude air defense missiles. After a period of three years from the
date of entry into force of the present Agreement the provision
concerning the area outside the Security Region may be reviewed by
the Security Arrangements Committee at the request of either Party.
f. Military electronic equipment in the Security Region will be as
specified in the Appendix. Deployment of ground radars within ten
kilometers of the Israeli-Lebanese boundary should be approved by the
Security Arrangements Committee. Ground radars throughout the
Security Region will be deployed so that their sector of search does
not cross the Israeli-Lebanese boundary. This provision does not
apply to civil aviation or air traffic control radars.
g. The provision mentioned in paragraph e. applies also to
anti-aircraft missiles on Lebanese Navy vessels. In the Security
Region Lebanon may deploy naval elements and establish and maintain
naval bases or other shore installations required to accomplish the
naval mission. The coastal installations in the Security Region will
be as specified in the Appendix.
h. In order to avoid accidents due to misidentification the Lebanese
military authorities will give advance notice of all flights of any
kind over the Security Region according to procedures to be
determined by the Security Arrangements Committee. Approval of these
flights is not required.
i. (l) The forces weapons and military equipment which may be
stationed stocked introduced into or transported through the
Security Region are only those mentioned in this Annex and its
Appendix.
(2) No infrastructure auxiliary installations or equipment
capable of assisting the activation of weapons that are not permitted
by this Annex or its Appendix shall be maintained or established in
the Security Region.
(3) These provisions also apply whenever a clause of this
Annex relates to areas outside the Security Region.
3. Security Arrangements Committee
a. Within the framework of the Joint Liaison Committee a Security
Arrangements Committee will be established.
b. The Security Arrangements Committee will be composed of an equal
number of Israeli and Lebanese representatives headed by senior
officers. A representative of the United States of America will
participate in meetings of the Committee at the request of either
Party. Decisions of the Security Arrangements Committee will be
reached by agreement of the Parties.
c. The Security Arrangements Committee shall supervise the
implementation of the security arrangements in the present Agreement
and this Annex and the timetable and modalities as well as all other
aspects relating to withdrawals described in the present Agreement
and this Annex. To this end and by agreement of the Parties it
will:
(l) Supervise the implementation of the undertakings of the
Parties under the present Agreement and this Annex.
(2) Establish and operate Joint Supervisory Teams as detailed
below.
(3) Address and seek to resolve any problems arising out of
the implementation of the security arrangements in the present
Agreement and this Annex and discuss any violation reported by the
Joint Supervisory Teams or any complaint concerning a violation
submitted by one of the Parties.
d. The Security Arrangements Committee shall deal with any complaint
submitted to it not later than 24 hours after submission.
e. Meetings of the Security Arrangements Committee shall be held at
least once every two weeks in Israel and in Lebanon alternately. In
the event that either Party requests a special meeting it will be
convened within 2 hours. The first meeting will be held within 48
hours after the date of entry into force of the present Agreement.
f. Joint Supervisory Teams
(l) The Security Arrangements Committee will establish Joint
Supervisory Teams (Israel-Lebanon) subordinate to it and composed of
an equal number of representatives from each Party.
(2) The teams will conduct regular verification of the
implementation of the provisions of the security arrangement in the
Agreement and this Annex. The teams shall report immediately any
confirmed violations to the Security Arrangements Committee and
ascertain that violations have been rectified.
(3) The Security Arrangements Committee shall assign a Joint
Supervisory Team when requested to check border security
arrangements on the Israeli side of the international boundary in
accord with Article 4 of the present Agreement.
(4) The teams will enjoy freedom of movement in the air sea
and land as necessary for the performance of their tasks within the
Security Region.
(5) The Security Arrangements Committee will determine all
administrative and technical arrangements concerning the functioning
of the teams including their working procedures their number their
manning their armament and their equipment.
(6) Upon submission of a report to the Security Arrangements
Committee or upon confirmation of a complaint of either Party by the
teams the respective Party shall immediately and in any case not
later than 24 hours from the report or the confirmation rectify the
violation. The Party shall immediately notify the Security
Arrangements Committee of the rectification. Upon receiving the
notification the teams will ascertain that the violation has been
rectified.
(7) The Joint Supervisory Teams shall be subject to
termination upon 90 days notice by either Party given at any time
after two years from the date of entry into force of the present
Agreement. Alternative verification arrangements shall be established
in advance of such termination through the Joint Liaison Committee.
Notwithstanding the foregoing the Joint Liaison Committee may
determine at any time that there is no further need for such
arrangements.
g. The Security Arrangements Committee will ensure that practical and
rapid contacts between the two Parties are established along the
boundary to prevent incidents and facilitate coordination between the
forces on the terrain.
4. It is understood that the Government of Lebanon may request
appropriate action in the United Nations Security Council for one unit
of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) to be stationed
in the Sidon area. The presence of this unit will lend support to the
Government of Lebanon and the Lebanese Armed Forces in asserting
governmental authority and protection in the Palestinian refugee camp
areas. For a period of 12 months the unit in the Sidon area may send
teams to the Palestinian refugee camp areas in the vicinity of Sidon and
Tyre to survey and observe if requested by the Government of Lebanon
following notification to the Security Arrangements Committee. Police
and security functions shall remain the sole responsibility of the
Government of Lebanon which shall ensure that the provisions of the
present Agreement shall be fully implemented in these areas.
5. Three months after completion of the withdrawal of all Israeli forces
from Lebanon the Security Arrangements Committee will conduct a
full-scale review of the adequacy of the security arrangements
delineated in this Annex in order to improve them.
6. Withdrawal of Israeli Forces
a. Within 8 to 12 weeks of the entry into force of the present
Agreement all Israeli forces will have been withdrawn from Lebanon.
This is consistent with the objective of Lebanon that all external
forces withdraw from Lebanon.
b. The Israel Defense Forces and the Lebanese Armed Forces will
maintain continuous liaison during the withdrawal and will exchange
all necessary information through the Security Arrangements
Committee. The Israel Defense Forces and the Lebanese Armed Forces
will cooperate during the withdrawal in order to facilitate the
reassertion of the authority of the Government of Lebanon as the
Israeli armed forces withdraw.
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