France has underlined the necessity to move fast for the adoption as quickly as possible of a UN resolution backed by France and the United States over the Israeli-Lebanese conflict, while taking into account Lebanon's demand.

Lebanon requested to amend the French-U.S. resolution draft by asking notably the immediate withdrawal of the Israeli forces from the Lebanese territory after ending the conflict.

"We are aware of the need to move fast," French Foreign Ministry's spokesman Denis Simonneau told reporters on Monday.

"We hope for an adoption as soon as possible, while trying to take into account the demands voiced by the Lebanese prime minister," he added.

France was "studying these (Lebanese) proposals with the greatest care, and along with its partners in the Security Council was looking at ways of taking them into account," he said.

The French-U.S. resolution draft called for a complete ceasefire, a political agreement and then the deployment of an international force.

The French spokesman noted that its first goal is to obtain the complete and immediate ceasefire and that the draft was welcomed by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and a large majority of delegations in the UN Security Council.