BEIRUT, JULY 16, SPA -- LEBANON’S PRESIDENT ACCUSED THEU.N. SECURITY COUNCIL ON SUNDAY OF DELAYING INTERVENTION TO STOP ISRAEL’S FIVE-DAY MILITARY BLITZ, TO GIVE THE JEWISH STATE EXTRA TIME TO MAKE LEBANON SURRENDER TO ITS CONDITIONS. «UNFORTUNATELY, WHAT’S HAPPENING IS THAT THE SECURITY COUNCIL HAD A MEETING AND THEN POSTPONED (ACTION)... BELIEVING THAT BY DOING THIS THERE WOULD COME A TIME THAT THE LEBANESE WILL SURRENDER,» LEBANESE PRESIDENT EMILE LAHOUD TOLD REPORTERS BEFORE CHAIRING AN EMERGENCY CABINET MEETING. LAHOUD SAID ISRAEL’S BLOODY ASSAULT COULD PUSHDESPERATE LEBANESE CITIZENS TO SACRIFICE THEIR LIVES TODEFEND THEIR COUNTRY _ AND EVEN COMMIT ACTS OF TERRORISM. «VIOLENCE GENERATES TERRORISM, AND THIS IS NOT THE WAY,» HE SAID. BUT LAHOUD VOWED NOT TO BEND TO ISRAELI PRESSURE. «THE LEBANESE WILL NOT SURRENDER,» HE WAS QUOTED AS SAYING BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. AND HE PLEADED TO THE U.N. SECURITY COUNCIL DIRECTLY,SAYING «STOP VIOLENCE AND ARRANGE A CEASE-FIRE, AND THEN AFTER THAT WE’LL BE READY TO DISCUSS ALL MATTERS.» --SPA 16/07/2006 13:50 ت م www.spa.gov.sa/375891