Press releases archive (2006 -2015)

  • UNIFIL Force Commander Major-General Portolano transfers command to the new MTF Commander Rear Admiral Flavio Macedo Brasil during MTF Transfer of Authority ceremony.

    UNIFIL Maritime Task Force transfer of authority
    26 Feb 2015 - The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) today underwent a transfer of command of its Maritime Task Force (MTF) to Rear Admiral Flavio Macedo Brasil from Rear Admiral Walter Eduardo Bombarda at the end of his one-year term at the helm. The handover ceremony was held...
  • UNIFIL Force Commander meets with local leaders in Bint Jbeil
    25 Feb 2015 - UNIFIL’s Head of Mission and Force Commander Major-General Luciano Portolano met today with local authorities, mayors, LAF and Internal Security Officers in the town of Bint Jbeil in south Lebanon. Major-General Portolano took the opportunity to express his gratitude to the...

  • Lebanese Minister of Environment Mr. Machnouk and Force Commander Major- General Portolano exchanging presents after their meeting.

    Minister of Environment Launches Greening the South Initiative
    11 Feb 2015 - The Lebanese Minister of Environment Mr. Mohammad Machnouk, today paid a visit to the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) in Naqoura where he was received by UNIFIL Head of Mission and Force Commander Major-General Luciano Portolano. The purpose of the visit was to...
  • UNIFIL Force Commander meets with religious leaders in Tyre
    05 Feb 2015 - UNIFIL Head of Mission and Force Commander Major-General Luciano Portolano today held separate meetings with Sheikh Hasan Abdallah (Tyre and Jabal Amel Shiite Mufti), Bishop Shukrallah Nabil Hajj (Tyre Maronite Archbishop), Bishop Michael Abras (Tyre Greek Catholics Archbishop...
  • Tripartite Meeting held on 04 February 2015
    04 Feb 2015 - 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 officers from the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) at the UN...
  • UNIFIL Force Commander meets Speaker of Parliament Nabih Berri
    30 Jan 2015 - UNIFIL Head of Mission and Force Commander Major-General Luciano Portolano today called on Lebanese Speaker of Parliament Nabih Berri in his office in Beirut to discuss the situation in the UNIFIL Area of Operation in view of the recent incidents in southern Lebanon. The Force...

  • Honor guard carrying the flag-draped casket of departed Spanish peacekeeper, Lance Corporal Toledo, departs the memorial service held at the Beirut International Airport.

    UNIFIL Honours fallen Peacekeeper
    29 Jan 2015 - A memorial service was held this morning at the Beirut International Airport in honour of a UNIFIL peacekeeper who lost his life yesterday in the line of duty in southern Lebanon. Lance Corporal Francisco Javier Soria Toledo, a member of the Spanish contingent deployed in...
  • UNIFIL Press Statement on incidents along the Blue Line
    28 Jan 2015 - At around 11:30 am this morning, UNIFIL observed six rockets launched towards Israel from the vicinity of Wazzani north of Maysat in the UNIFIL area of operations. The IDF returned artillery fire in the same general area. During the course of the developments, a UNIFIL...
  • UNIFIL Force Commander meets Lebanese leaders in Beirut
    19 Dec 2014 - UNIFIL Head of Mission and Force Commander Major-General Luciano Portolano today called on Lebanese Speaker of Parliament Nabih Berri, Prime Minister Tammam Salam and Minister of Interior Nuhad Mashnouk in Beirut. Discussions focused on the situation in UNIFIL's area of...
  • UNIFIL Force Commander visits Grand Mufti and Maronite Patriarch
    18 Dec 2014 - UNIFIL Head of Mission and Force Commander Major-General Luciano Portolano today paid two separate courtesy calls to the Grand Mufti of the Lebanese Republic H.E. Sheikh Abdel-Latif Derian...

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