NAQURA, Lebanon (AFP) -- The United Nations has said it met with Israeli army officials in a bid to secure the "speedy withdrawal" of the Jewish state's troops from a Lebanese village.

"The meeting was productive and the main focus was to finalize the IDF (Israeli Defense Forces) withdrawal" from Ghajar village, Brigadier General J.P. Nehra, the deputy commander of the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), said in a statement Monday.

During their talks, the Israeli military also handed UNIFIL charts showing where it had laid landmines before its withdrawal from the area in May 2000, the statement added.

The charts were sent on to the UN peacekeeping mission's coordination centre and the Lebanese army.

The village of Ghajar, which straddles the Israeli-Lebanese border, is the last position occupied by Israeli forces since its soldiers left southern Lebanon on October 1.

The Israeli withdrawal came almost seven weeks after a UN-brokered truce took effect on August 14, ending 34 days of war between the Jewish state and the Hezbollah Shiite militant group.