UN Security Council to talk post-UNIFIL Lebanon on Friday
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UN Security Council to talk post-UNIFIL Lebanon on Friday
The United Nations Security Council is set on Friday to discuss a post-UNIFIL landscape for Lebanon; both Washington and Jerusalem are clear: The time for international peacekeepers north of Israel’s border is closing.UNIFIL—the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon—has been anything but interim. Formed in 1978, ostensibly to help keep the peace between Jerusalem and Beirut, the mission has come under withering criticism from Israel and the United State…
Speaker of Parliament Nabih Berri told Asharq Al-Awsat that the United States' insistence on refusing to renew the UNIFIL mandate opens the door to the necessity of seeking an alternative UN force that enjoys European-American consensus. Berri stressed that bilateral agreements between Lebanon and Israel do not constitute a substitute for an international presence in the south, as long as Israel refuses to implement what the two countries reache…
The anticipated post-United Nations Interim Force in South Lebanon (UNIFIL) security and military arrangements constitute a critical and central crossroads in the regional stability equation on the southern Lebanese border. The termination of the Mission ' s assignment reflects not only the immediate logistical and field side, but also the reconfiguration of deterrence doctrine, field control and military search controls along [...] The pos…
At a closed meeting, the members of the Security Council rejected Israeli attempts to undermine or rescind resolution 1701, amid serious Lebanese demands for an additional, albeit short, extension of the mandate of UNIFIL, UNIFIL, amid a clear desire by US President Donald Tramp's administration for a United Nations support role for the United States-Lebanon-Israel tripartite framework. By resolution 2790 ... the post of Lebanon demands an exten…
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun discussed with Lebanese Chief of Staff Rodolphe Heikal the Israeli attacks on southern Lebanon and the post-UNIFIL period.
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