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Outgoing Force Commander Major-General Luciano Portolano hands over the UN flag to Major-General Michael Beary.
Major-General Michael Beary takes over command of UNIFIL
The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) today underwent a transfer of command from Major-General Luciano Portolano (Italy) to Major-General Michael Beary (Ireland). The hand-over ceremony at UNIFIL Headquarters…
UNIFIL Head of Mission and Force Commander, Major-General Portolano, reviews a guard of honor at the Lebanese Armed Forces headquarters in Beirut.
As he prepares to leave, UNIFIL head says relations with communities critical to success
The outgoing head of UNIFIL, Major-General Luciano Portolano, has stressed the importance of continuing close engagement and relations with the local population and the authorities for successful implementation of the UN…
UNIFIL Deputy Head of Mission Imran Riza, and the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jean-Marc Ayrault, review the guard of honour at UNIFIL’s headquarters in Naqoura.
French Foreign Minister visits UNIFIL HQ
The French Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Development, Jean-Marc Ayrault, visited the headquarters of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) in Naqoura, south Lebanon, today. UNIFIL’s Deputy Head…
A UNIFIL Brazilian Peacekeeper from the Maritime Task Force (MTF) in the operations room of the UNIFIL flagship Independencia, off the coast of Beirut, Lebanon.
UNIFIL’s Maritime Task Force commended for naval peacekeeping work
On a recent visit to see the work of UNIFIL’s Maritime Task Force (MTF) off the coast of Beirut Port, the UN Mission’s head and Force Commander, Major-General Luciano Portolano, commended the UN’s only naval peacekeepers for…
Wreath-laying ceremony in memory of Spanish peacekeepers killed in 2007
A wreath-laying ceremony was held last week in Khiam, in south-eastern Lebanon, in memory of the six Spanish UNIFIL peacekeepers killed in a bomb attack nine years ago. UNIFIL’s Sector East Commander, Brigadier-General Pérez…
Major-General Portolano chairs last tripartite meeting as UNIFIL Head of Mission
The Head of Mission and Force Commander of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), Major-General Luciano Portolano, today chaired a regular tripartite meeting with senior officials from the Lebanese Armed Forces…
UNIFIL Indian Battalion veterinary team show a local farmer the early warning signs of detecting Foot-and-Mouth Disease.
UNIFIL’s Indian Battalion vaccinates 10,000 animals
In July 2016 UNIFIL’s Indian Battalion ran a hugely successful vaccination campaign against foot-and-mouth disease (FMD). The four week campaign was carried out with the close cooperation of Lebanon’s Ministry of Agriculture…
UNIFIL Major-General Michael Beary meets with the Director General of General Security
UNIFIL Head of Mission and Force Commander Major-General Michael Beary met today with the Director General of General Security Major-General Abbas Ibrahim in Beirut. This was Major-General Beary’s first meeting with the…
The crowd stands and salutes as The Last Post is played to remember four Observer Group Lebanon (OGL) Peacekeepers who were killed in action ten years ago. They were: Major Hans-Peter Lang from Austria, Major Paeta Derek Hess-von Kruedener from Canada, Lieutenant Jarno Makinen from Finland, and Major Du Zhaoyu from China. The ceremony was held at the site of their old patrol base in Khiam, south Lebanon.
Ten years on: remembering fallen Peacekeepers
Major General Arthur David Gawn, Head of Mission and Chief of Staff of the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO, began his speech with a Maori chant. The song recounted the memory of lost warriors and its…
UNIFIL Head Major-General Beary meets Prime Minister Salam and LAF Commander Khawaji
UNIFIL Head of Mission and Force Commander Major-General Michael Beary today called on Prime Minister Tammam Salam and Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) Commander General Jean Khawaji in separate meetings in Beirut. The meetings…