UN Plans to Maintain Presence in Lebanon After UNIFIL Mandate Ends in 2027

The United Nations said on Thursday it was working on maintaining a presence in Lebanon once the mandate for its UNIFIL peacekeeping force expires at the end of the year. Disarmament of armed groups cannot be achieved through force, a United Nations top peacekeeping official warned. If you talk about enforcing disarmament, disarmament by force, I think disarming an entity, you know, which is which doesn't want to be disarmed peacefully, the synonymous of that is war. That is not peacekeeping. The UN Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations added the presence of Israeli forces in Lebanon violates UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which ended the

2006 war between Israel and the Hezbollah. Jean-Pierre Lacroix also called for political solutions to the ongoing conflict in Lebanon. The situation in Lebanon will have to be solved through a political agreement, and a political agreement that will be implemented, implemented by the Lebanese authorities, again, with the support of the international community. For questions, Dina asked Lebanon and Israel are set to begin a second session of direct talks in Washington on Thursday.