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Lebanon PM demands UN resolution on ceasefire with Israel


By AFP
Published : 11 Oct 2024 10:31 PM

Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati on Friday urged the United Nations to pass a resolution calling for an "immediate" ceasefire between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah group.

Mikati told reporters the foreign ministry would ask the UN Security Council to issue a resolution demanding a "full and immediate ceasefire" and that his government was committed to Resolution 1701 which was adopted in 2006 and called for the Lebanese army 

and peacekeepers to be the only armed forces deployed in the south of the country.