United Nations Resident Coordinator for Lebanon Robert Watkins said that the report on Lebanon’s implementation of U.N. Security Council resolution 1701 will be sent to New York on Tuesday to be discussed at the Council on November 29.

Watkins held a meeting on Monday with Prime Minister Najib Miqati to inform him of the content of the report.

Residents of the southern town of Abbasiyyeh clashed with UNIFIL’s Spanish contingent after it prevented them from reaching their fields for not carrying permits, the National News Agency reported Saturday.

NNA said that the Spanish contingent prevented several residents from reaching their homes and olive groves in an area near a UNIFIL base, saying they did not have permits that would allow them to enter the territory abutting the border.

United Nations General Secretary Ban Ki-moon has not yet decided on the diplomat who will succeed U.N. Special Coordinator for Lebanon Michael Williams, As Safir newspaper reported on Friday.

The daily said that Ban has ruled out appointing any of the three persons whom media outlets had named as the main candidates to succeed Williams.

The army launched a wide search operation for what is suspected to be an Israeli drone that crashed in Froun region in Bint Jbeil in southern Lebanon, the National News Agency reported on Saturday.

The UNIFIL operations unit informed the Lebanese army of the crash of an Israeli drone in Froun, the NNA said.

The Commander of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon Major General Alberto Asarta will end his tenure at the head of the mission on January 28, 2012, reported As Safire newspaper on Saturday.

It said that he will likely return to Spain where he will assume a high-ranking official position.

United Nations Security Council members urged the Lebanese cabinet to implement its international commitments, especially the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, An Nahar newspaper on Friday.

The members advised “Lebanon to implement its commitment to the Special Tribunal for Lebanon and pay its dues,” the daily said.

The West fears that the popular uprising that erupted in Syria might affect the Lebanese local situation, as the Lebanese officials are divided over their responses to the revolt against President Bashar Assad.

“Any new European sanctions will target the financial sector in Syria,” western diplomatic sources told An Nahar newspaper on Tuesday.

United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) commander Major General Alberto Asarta survived an emergency failure in his chopper on Friday night, An Nahar newspaper reported.

Asarta was on his way to the Presidential Palace to attend a dinner held in honor of Irish President Mary McAleese when the incident occurred, the daily said on Monday.

Prime Minister Najib Miqati stressed on Saturday that Lebanon is committed to all the international resolutions especially United Nations resolution 1701, vowing to reinforce the Lebanese army to replace the UNIFIL in the south.

Miqati said during a meeting with Ireland President Mary McAleese at the Grand Serail that he will put his efforts to “strengthen the Lebanese Armed Forces to be able to replace the peace keeping forces in the South.”

Tensions were high at the Fatima gate border crossing in southern Lebanon on Friday when an Israeli army unit approached the border to inspect a suspicious object, reported the National News Agency.

The Lebanese army and United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon promptly went on alert in response to the Israeli activity.