[AFP/Yahoo] Herve Asquin - French President Jacques Chirac has warned against a continued Hizballah armed presence in southern Lebanon. "It is absolutely normal to have a current which expresses politically what the Hizballah part of Lebanese public opinion thinks," Chirac told Europe 1 radio in Paris. "What is unacceptable is to express it by the use of force, with armed militias....No country accepts that part of its territory be controlled by armed militias." On Monday, China announced it was bolstering its peacekeeping forces in Lebanon to 1,000, in what analysts said was an attempt to reinforce Beijing's role in international affairs.
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