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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…
UNIFIL Spanish peacekeepers assisting the children in assembling a kite in Ein Arab
Southern children at play with UNIFIL peacekeepers
It really felt like a Happy Eid in Tibnin, especially at the town's centre where hundreds of children gathered on 21 August to enjoy a day of fun with UNIFIL's Finnish and Irish peacekeepers. It really felt like a Happy Eid…
UNIFIL Press Statement: Tripartite Meeting held today, 29 August 2012
The Head of Mission and Force Commander of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), Major-General Paolo Serra, today chaired a regular tripartite meeting with senior officials from the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF)…
Force Commander Major-General Paolo Serra congratulating the students at the generator section in UNIFIL Headquarters. Naqoura, August 28th, 2012. Photo by Pasqual Gorriz/ UNIFIL
Back to school...equipped with practical experience
Twelve Technical School students will be back to school this fall equipped with real practical and field experience to add to the theoretical schooling they are receiving at Bint Jbeil Public Technical School in southern…
UNIFIL Welcomes Mandate Renewal, 31 August 2012
The United Nations Security Council, on the request of Lebanon, yesterday unanimously adopted resolution 2064 (2012), extending without any changes the mandate of the United Nations Interim Mission in Lebanon (UNIFIL) for one…
Time for fun - and to learn to save water - on World Water Day
They played games and picked up a few tips. That's how about 500 Lebanese school children marked World Water Day in southern Lebanon. The school children aged 8 to 10 from eight schools mainly in the Tyr district of the south…
Indonesian peacekeepers performing a traditional comic dance during a poetry competition ceremony in Marjayoun that was organized by UNIFIL on 23 March 2012 for the World Poetry Day
Southern youths showcase their talents on World Poetry Day
The youths of southern Lebanon got a chance to show their poetry talents in a competition organized by UNIFIL for World Poetry Day. World Poetry Day was marked this year with a ceremony in the town of Marjayoun to pick…