A decisive test for UNIFIL fate

Dolly Beshaalani wrote in “Al -Diyar: The matter of extension for one year will not be an additional year for the United Nations peacekeeping forces“ UNIFIL ”in the Security Council, next week, easy this time … and the main reason is due to the disparity in the American approach -“ Israeli ”and European for the French draft decision that calls for“ the extension of the state of “UNIFIL” for an additional year that ends on August 31 of the year 2026, in preparation To gradually withdraw from southern Lebanon, after the Lebanese state becomes the only guarantor of security in it.

Diplomatic communications are intensified in the corridors of the United Nations, especially after the issue of “UNIFIL” has turned from an annual routine action into political rams between international and regional parties. The biggest confrontation gets what is confirming the informed diplomacy between the United States of America, and European countries, headed by France, Italy and Britain. The United States rejects the idea of extending the international power for an additional year. She explained her position, which was informed by the American delegate, Morgan Ortigos, explained to Lebanese officials while accompanying the American envoy Tom Barrak during his last visit to Lebanon on August 18, noting that her country is not enthusiastic about this extension.
That is why it may be with its stay in the south for half a year, not more, provided that it is done during this period by UNIFIL to train the Lebanese army. Its presence is as a transitional period during which all mines are dismantled, and the army began to spread it completely and impose its control on the southern region until the withdrawal of “UNIFIL” is final. Lebanon follows up the issue of extension of UNIFIL at home, as in the UN Security Council to persuade member states of the importance of continuing to work these forces for an additional year, as well as persuading the United States not to use the right to veto and end the work of “UNIFIL” at this decisive and crucial moment.
The President of the Republic, General Joseph Aoun, Commander of the International Forces operating in the south, told General Diodato Abanara during his reception yesterday, Tuesday, that “Lebanon is adhering to the survival of the international forces in the south in the period required by the implementation of Resolution 1701 with its full levels and the completion of the deployment of the Lebanese army to the international borders,” noting that “any time limit for the assignment of“ UNIFIL ”is different from the actual need for it will negatively affect the situation in the south He suffers from Israel’s occupation of areas of its lands.
It seems, according to the information, that the United States has been convinced that the UNIFIL state should be extended for one additional year, provided that this research follows the possibility of finishing the task after six months, if the conditions are appropriate for such a matter.