In an issued statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, it denied circulated news about a request by Foreign Affairs and Emigrants Minister, Abdallah Bou Habib, to amend the UN Security Council resolution regarding the freedom of movement of UNIFIL that was ababdoned by the caretaker government. The statement stressed that Minister Bou Habib works in coordination with the Prime Minister and in accordance with government policy and its ministerial statement. It added that “the Foreign Ministry continues to mobilize support and contacts with the concerned foreign embassies in Lebanon, and through the Lebanese embassies in these capitals, and the Permanent Mission of Lebanon to the United Nations in New York, for the issuance of a decision to extend the mandate of UNIFIL that guarantees UNIFIL’s freedom of movement in coordination with the government and the Lebanese army, as implemented in the field, for the success of its mission, and to maintain calm and stability in southern Lebanon and the region for the success of its mission, in accordance with the agreement of the work of these forces known as SOFA.”
Source: National News Agency – Lebanon