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Thursday, January 22, 2009

Spanish DM: Peacekeepers to stay in S Lebanon

Spanish Defense Minister Carme Chacon stressed Thursday from south Lebanon, that the Spanish peacekeepers under UN Interim Forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL) will stay in their task until UN resolution 1701 is implemented, local Elnashra website reported.

The Spanish defense minister inspected her country's troops in south Lebanon accompanied with UNIFIL commander Claudio Graziano.

"We regret the rocket launching from south Lebanon into northern Israel," she said, pointing out that Spain is seeking to end the fighting in Gaza as well.

The minister denounced the "massacres" committed against the Palestinian people in Gaza, and pledged for the end of the fighting.

Spanish troops are part of around 13,000 other peacekeepers that are deployed in south Lebanon in accordance with UN resolution 1701, which ended the 34-day devastating war between Hezbollah and Israel in 2006.

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