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Italy’s Meloni to visit Lebanon, says UN mission should not be withdrawn

Speaking in the lower house of parliament, she said she expected to be in Lebanon on Friday.

Italy MeloniItalian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni (File Photo/Reuters)

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Tuesday announced a visit to Lebanon later this week, and said heeding Israel’s unilateral demand for UN peacekeepers to be withdrawn from the country would be a “grave mistake”.

Speaking in the lower house of parliament, she said she expected to be in Lebanon on Friday and said a withdrawal of the UNIFIL mission “would be a grave mistake and undermine the credibility” of the United Nations.

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