Jean-Pierre Lacroix, head of the UN peacekeeping mission, said yesterday that the redeployment of troops in southern Lebanon is critical to reaching a sustainable solution to end the ongoing conflict between the Israeli army and Hezbollah. “Restructuring the Lebanese armed forces is absolutely central to any sustainable solution,” Lacroix told reporters, including AFP correspondents, at the end of his three-day visit to Lebanon. “We start from the basic principle that the return to implementation of a peace agreement will be based on the implementation of UN resolution 1701,” which ended the previous war between Israel and Hezbollah in 2006, he added. That resolution states that only the Lebanese army and the Blue Helmets can be deployed on Lebanon’s southern border with northern Israel to patrol along the Blue Line and act as a buffer zone between its fighters. […]
Source: News Beast
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