HE Mr Michel Haddad and the Commanding Officer of UNIFIL Ghanbatt 65, Lt Col EW
Kotia with the troops at the Beirut International Airport on their arrival.
The United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701 that brokered the peace after the 34-day war between Israel and Hezbollah among other things, requested Member Countries to raise the level of UN Peacekeepers in Southern Lebanon from less than 3000 at the time to a maximum of 15,000 troops.
