Meanwhile, the resolution called upon concerned parties to co-operate with the Security Council and Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to make progress towards a long-term solution and permanent ceasefire. It urged the Israeli government to withdraw its forces from northern Ghajar immediately, and reaffirmed its call to make the area between the Blue Line and the Litani River a zone free of any armed personnel and weapons except for those of UNIFIL and Lebanese national forces.[5]