A/HRC/9/3 page 10 Middle East 26. Prime Minister Fouad Siniora, on behalf of the Government of Lebanon, stated that Lebanon was committed to the ratification of the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict. Parliamentary deputy Mohammed Raad, on behalf of Hizbullah, committed not to use children for armed violence or political mobilization. 27. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Minister for Foreign Affairs Ziad Abu Amr agreed to revive the code of conduct among Palestinian groups not to involve children in political violence, and to engage with UNICEF to devise a plan of action to prevent the use of children in such violence. 28. The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Tzipi Livni, stated that the Government of Israel was committed to investigating and taking appropriate action on the case of renewed attacks by settlers on schoolchildren in al-Tuwani village. Further, the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, Major-General Yosef Mishlev, was committed to investigating the routing of the barrier and its effect on the daily lives of the children of Azzun Atma and al-Nu’man villages, to investigating fully the cases of harassment and attacks on children in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and the difficulties of access for health professionals and patients to East Jerusalem hospitals owing to the barrier and its associated restrictive permit system. Myanmar 29. The Government of Myanmar agreed to cooperate in the establishment of a monitoring and reporting mechanism on child rights violations within the framework of Security Council resolution 1612 (2005) by appointing the Director-General of the Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement as the Government focal point on issues relating to the implementation of the mechanism; to provide details of action taken against army recruiters who recruited children and the list of children discharged for follow-up verification by the United Nations; and to engage in a plan of action with the United Nations, including to establish a subcommittee for the reintegration of former child soldiers, a transparent complaints procedure for incidents of recruitment of children, instituting disciplinary measures against parties responsible for aiding and abetting child recruitment, access to recruitment centres by the United Nations on a regular basis for verification, regular child protection training for officials of the armed forces, and a public campaign to create awareness of the rules, regulations and modalities of a complaints procedure to prevent recruitment. 30. The Government also committed to bringing its current plan of action on the prevention of the recruitment of children into its armed forces (Tatmadaw Kyi) into line with international standards and to facilitate plans of action with the United Wa State Army and other non-State actors. The Government has also recognized the need for the United Nations country task force in Myanmar to engage the Karen National Union and Karenni National Progressive Party in the development of plans of action and to monitor their compliance, in accordance with Security Council resolution 1612 (2005).