US EditionUN Security Council to Vote on Embattled Lebanon Peacekeepers
The UN Security Council plans to extend UNIFIL's mandate while preparing for its withdrawal as Lebanese forces assume security amid Hezbollah tensions, with 8,300 troops deployed in 120 locations.
- Monday, the United Nations Security Council will vote on a French-drafted compromise to extend UNIFIL's mandate until August 31, 2026, while preparing its withdrawal.
- Lebanon's cabinet this month tasked the Lebanese army with developing a plan to disarm Hezbollah, an Iran-backed militant group, by the end of the year; meanwhile, the army dismantles militant infrastructure in south Lebanon amid ongoing Israeli strikes under the truce.
- On the ground, UNIFIL facilitated deployment of 8,300 Lebanese armed forces troops to 120 locations, while UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric last week called this support `critical` and condemned incidents injuring peacekeepers linked to strikes on UNIFIL positions.
- Diplomatic friction emerged as Washington's acceptance of the UNIFIL compromise remained unclear and a senior UN official warned that rapid withdrawal "would not serve anybody in the region."
- The draft signals an intention to work on a withdrawal of UNIFIL, deployed in 1978, aiming to make the Lebanese Government the sole security provider in southern Lebanon after one more year.
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The war between Israel and the Lebanese Hizbullah has dramatically changed the situation in the border area. The future of UN forces UNIFIL is in question.
UNSC to vote on future of Lebanon peacekeeping mission
The future of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon will be decided this week by the UN Security Council, with the United States and Israel said to be pressing for the mission to be wound-down over the next 12 months.
In New York, a meeting of the Security Council, originally scheduled for Monday, 25 August, to put to the vote the renewal of the mandate of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (Final), will probably be postponed for further consultations among the countries concerned. The United States is reluctant to support a further extension of the mandate of the international force, which expires at the end of August, without extending its prerogat…
This vote on Monday comes at a time when Beirut committed itself to disarming and dismantling the pro-Iranian Shiite Hezbollah group by the end of the year, under pressure from Washington.
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UN Security Council to vote on embattled Lebanon peacekeepers
The United Nations Security Council will vote Monday on the future of the blue helmet peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon that has faced US and Israeli opposition.
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