At the UN, Lebanon’s Prime Minister Nawaf Salam has stressed the need to “avert the vacuum” that would be caused by withdrawing the UN peacekeeping mission deployed in the south of his country without a viable replacement, AFP reports.
“What we wish to stress here and today is the need to avert the vacuum that Unifil’s withdrawal could create, were it to take place without agreement on a new international force to replace it,” he says.
