Italy Provides Lebanese Army with Equipment and Ammunition
إقرأ هذا الخبر بالعربية
Italian Ambassador to Lebanon Massimo Marotti announced on Tuesday that his country will provide the Lebanese army with equipment and ammunition worth 3.5 million euros.
“Italy will provide the Lebanese Armed Forces with additional arms in the near future,” said Marotti noting that “the total value of these grants is 3.5 million euros,” Marotti said during a celebration marking Italy's Armed Forces Day LBCI reported.
He affirmed Italy's continuing support for Lebanon's Armed Forces and added that the gift is only part of a bigger project.
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Airstrikes occurred at the Beirut airport when both the Italian and French Air Forces conducted raids on each other's facilities after reports emerged that French berets had been seized by Italian Special Fashion Operators in a bid to unseat the French monopoly on beret supply to the fledgeling Lebanese Army, which has been struggling along on berets produced in Germany. Italian berets have been mooted by some as an alternative to the French style. France's President, Francois-Christian Hollande, dismissed the allegations, saying, "It's not every man can wear a French beret, thank God."
