UNITED NATIONS - UN chief Ban Ki-moon "strongly condemns" an attack which killed a top Lebanese army officer and his bodyguard near Beirut Wednesday and urged all Lebanese to show restraint, his press office said.
"The secretary general strongly condemns this act of violence and terror on the Lebanese armed forces, a symbol of Lebanon's sovereignty," it said in a statement.
Ban, who is attending a climate change conference in Bali, Indonesia, was referring to the car bomb which killed Brigadier General Francois El-Hajj, head of army operations, and his bodyguard in the suburb of Baabda.
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12/12/2007 18:40 GMT