[AP/Washington Post] Anne Gearan - The U.S. warned Syria on Thursday to abide by a UN arms embargo meant to stop Hizballah from resupplying after its month-long war with Israel. It dismissed Syrian objections to international peacekeepers as preposterous. "All countries must obey the arms embargo" under the UN Security Council resolution that set a cease-fire this month, said State Department spokesman Gonzalo Gallegos. "It is a singular duty for Syria, as the one country apart from Israel that borders Lebanon, to do so." Syria has indicated it might impose a punitive blockade of Lebanon and "close their borders for all traffic in the event that UN troops are deployed along the Lebanon-Syria border," Finland Foreign Minister Erkki Tuomioja said after meeting his Syrian counterpart, Walid Moallem, in Helsinki.
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