Italian PM Meloni says will visit Lebanon
AFP | Rome, Italy
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Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said yesterday she would visit Lebanon, where Italian troops are part of a UN mission that has accused Israeli forces of firing on peacekeepers.
“It is already planned that I will go to Lebanon,” she told the Senate, without giving a date. Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani will be heading to Israel and the Palestinian territories next week, Meloni added.
UNIFIL, a United Nations mission of about 9,500 troops of various nationalities created following Israel’s 1978 invasion of Lebanon, has accused the Israeli military of “deliberately” firing on its positions.
Meloni, whose country is the second-biggest contributor of UNIFIL peacekeepers, has condemned the attacks several times.
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