Two Meetings Next Week Set to Relieve Tensions
A meeting is scheduled to be held on Monday in Tibneen attended by United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) Commander Major General Claudio Graziano with a Lebanese armed forces delegation headed by Colonel Abbas Ibrahim and members of parliament Hassan Fadlallah (Hizbullah) and Ali Bezzi (Amal Movement) and regional municipal heads and officials in the region.
That meeting is to be succeeded by a trilateral meeting gathering between UNIFIL-Israel and Lebanon in Naquora.
The daily As-Safir on Saturday said, this meeting comes as part of taken steps that were earlier agreed to by the military and UNIFIL as a process for relieving tensions in the south following the Khirbet Selim incident last week.
"The aim here is to remove all negative impacts following recent events and to re-establish the fact that we all need to strengthen and expand our relationship between local residents and the UNIFIL, since the international force is committed to fully implementing U.N. Security Council resolution 1701," a southern sources told As-Safir.