France highlights role in brokering Lebanon truce deal
France’s foreign minister underlined his country’s role in brokering an agreement that ended fighting between Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah alongside the U.S., saying the deal wouldn’t have been possible without France’s special relationship with its former protectorate.
“It’s a success for French diplomacy and we can be proud,” said the minister, Jean-Noël Barrot, speaking hours after the ceasefire went into effect Wednesday.
“It is true that the United States have a privileged relationship with Israel. But with Lebanon, it’s France that has very old ties, very close ties,” the minister added. “It would not have been possible to envisage a ceasefire in Lebanon without France being involved on the front line.”
France will be involved in monitoring the ceasefire, Barrot noted, with 700 French soldiers deployed as part of the 10,000-strong United Nations peacekeeping force, known as UNIFIL, that has been patrolling the border area between Lebanon and Israel for nearly 50 years.
The minister said France will also work to strengthen Lebanese troops that will deploy in the south of the country as part of the ceasefire, although he didn’t specify what that might include.
27 November 2024, 15:24
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France and especially Qatar helped rebuild the South & Dahia after 2006 without requiring disarming Hizbollah (Iran Brigade). That was the poison pill that allowed Hizbollah to systematically occupy the country and its institutions, indoctrinate & spread a reign of terror & insuring all presidents and prime ministers are its puppets. This resulted in exodus of foreign corporations, drying investments & bankruptcy of a nation that Rafiq Hariri made the envy of the Arab World. No more poison pills from Qatar or other nations without disarming Hizb and restoring Army sovereignty on all lands. Qatar & its AlJazeera (Al-Dracula) media are the prime responsible for destroying Lebanon & spreading radicalism & hate. Hopefully they can be sued by Hizbollah victims. Hizb is nothing but Iran Foreign Legion willingly destroying Lebanon for the glory of Iranian tyrants. Iran killed thousands of most educated Iranian during Green Revolution, why would it care for Lebanon or Gaza?
