{"id":42301,"date":"2019-09-14T10:49:23","date_gmt":"2019-09-14T02:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=42301"},"modified":"2019-09-14T10:59:28","modified_gmt":"2019-09-14T02:59:28","slug":"lebanons-president-urges-un-to-keep-maritime-forces-in-lebanon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=42301","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon&#8217;s President Urges UN To Keep Maritime Forces In Lebanon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BEIRUT, Sept 14 (NNN-NNA) &#8211; President Michel Aoun called on the UN to keep maritime forces in Lebanon, until the Lebanese army builds its maritime capacity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It is important to keep the UNIFIL&#8217;s maritime forces until we are able to increase our capacities, despite our financial difficulties,&#8221; Aoun was quoted as saying, during his meeting with Stefano Del Col, head of mission and force commander of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aoun also praised the UN Security Council Resolution 2485, which extends the mandate of the UNIFIL without any modifications in its duties and responsibilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We also appreciate the UN Security Council&#8217;s condemnation of Israeli violations along the Blue Line,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Aug 31, the UN Security Council extended the mandate of the UN peacekeeping force for another year, under UN Security Council Resolution 1701.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UNIFIL has been operating in southern Lebanon since 1978, to monitor the withdrawal of Israeli forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At present, UNIFIL has over 10,000 troops from 43 countries in Lebanon.&#8211; NNN-NNA  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIRUT, Sept 14 (NNN-NNA) &#8211; President Michel Aoun called on the UN to keep maritime forces in Lebanon, until the Lebanese army builds its maritime capacity. &#8220;It is important to keep the UNIFIL&#8217;s maritime forces until we are able to increase our capacities, despite our financial difficulties,&#8221; Aoun was quoted as saying, during his meeting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":42308,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[286,217],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42301"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}