HE Mr Michel Haddad, Consular General of Ghana to Lebanon and the Commanding
Officer of UNIFIL Ghanbatt 65, Lt Col EW Kotia waiting at the Beirut International
Airport for the troops.
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.
