"I am here among you because I want to personally see the situation in this area and to demonstrate the closeness of the Italian Armed Forces and myself personally in this particularly delicate moment". These are the words of General Francesco Paolo Figliuolo, Joint Operations Commander (Covi), who greeted the Italian soldiers deployed in Lebanon.
Last Wednesday, the Covi delegation accompanied by the commander of the Western sector of Unifil, Stefano Messina, first met in Beirut the Italian ambassador to Lebanon Fabrizio Marcelli, and then stopped at the UN base in Shama, home to the Joint Task Force Lebanon Command, currently under the leadership of the Sassari Brigade, where Figliuolo greeted the Italian soldiers of the Western sector.
After meeting with the personnel of the newly formed Military Technical Committee for Lebanon, the transfer to the forward bases to inspect the security procedures and the provisions relating to force protection. Then, the greeting to the personnel of Italbatt, who joins the Ghanaian, Malaysian, South Korean and Irish-Polish Task Forces that operate close to the demarcation line with Israel.
"The presence of Unifil is currently one of the factors that can bring stability and avoid further escalations," Figliuolo said, addressing the Italian contingent. In Naqoura, the commander of Covi was welcomed by the head of mission and force commander of Unifil, the Spaniard Aroldo Aroldo Lázaro Sáenz. During the office call between the two high-ranking officers, the importance of continuing with the mission was reiterated, without which the situation in southern Lebanon would be more tragic than the current one.
(Online Union)
