PNN – The United Nations Security Council will decide later today on the extension of the UNIFIL multinational force mission in southern Lebanon.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network, citing the newsletter, Agence France-Presse reported that the United Nations Security Council will vote later Monday on a draft resolution to extend the mandate of the United Nations peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon (UNIFIL), despite the United States and Israel having previously opposed extending the presence of these forces.
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The draft resolution, proposed by France, would extend the mandate of UNIFIL, which was established between Israel and Lebanon in 1978, for another year.
In the latest draft accessed by AFP, the Security Council indicated its intention to work towards UNIFIL’s withdrawal under the pretext of making the Lebanese government the sole guarantor of security in southern Lebanon.
This is while Israel’s daily attacks on Lebanon and the Zionist occupation of five strategic points in southern Lebanon continue.