Tzippi Livni

     Foreign minister  Livni defended the flights as a needed security precaution to watch movements of missiles from Syria to Lebanon. "The only reason for these flights is to get information," she said at the press conference, adding that the Syrian-Lebanese border remained open. Livni defended Israel's policy as necessary to monitor suspected arms smuggling by Hizbollah. She told a news conference in Paris that as along as the arms embargo is not implement not only Israel but everyone will have a big problem. She told the French president that Europe needs to be firmer in its demands from the Palestinian authority to uphold the conditions of the diplomatic quartet.(07,52)