News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

UNIFIL Force Commander Major-General Alberto Asarta Cuevas today paid farewell visits to senior Lebanese officials at the end of his tenure. He was accompanied by Major-General Paolo Serra, who will assume Command of UNIFIL on Saturday 28 January. Major-General Asarta called on President Michel…

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Major General Paolo Serra of Italy as Head of Mission and Force Commander of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon. Major General Serra will succeed Major General Alberto Asarta Cuevas of Spain, who will relinquish…

Naqoura, Lebanon – Acting Force Commander Brigadier-General Santi Bonfanti today received Lebanese President Michel Sleiman at the headquarters of the UNIFIL Force Commander Reserve at Deir Kifa in southern Lebanon. President Sleiman, accompanied by Defence Minister Fayez Ghosn and Lebanese Armed…

(UNIFIL Force Commander meets Lebanese leaders) Beirut, 14 December 2011- UNIFIL Force Commander Major-General Alberto Asarta Cuevas paid a visit to Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri and Prime Minister Najib Mikati to discuss the situation in UNIFIL Area of Operation in view of the recent incidents…

(Press Statement - Rocket fire into Israel from southern Lebanon, 29 November 2011) UNIFIL radars detected firing of at least one rocket into Israel shortly after midnight last night from the general area of Rumaysh in south Lebanon. Israeli authorities indicated to UNIFIL that a number of rockets…

(Naqoura, Lebanon - UNIFIL marks United Nations Day, 24 October 2011) The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) today celebrated the 66th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations in a ceremony at its headquarters in Naqoura. During this global observance of the UN Day, UNIFIL…

(TIBNIN, Lebanon - President of Ireland visits troops in UNIFIL, 15 October 2011) The President of Ireland, Mary McAleese, visited her country's troops deployed with the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) in southern Lebanon today. The Irish President was welcomed at Camp Shamrock, the Irish…

The Force Commander of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), Major-General Alberto Asarta Cuevas, today chaired a tripartite meeting with senior officials from the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) and the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) at the UN Position at Ras Al Naqoura crossing. During…

Beirut, 6 September 2011 - UNIFIL Head of Mission and Force Commander Major-General Alberto Asarta Cuevas this morning called on Prime Minister Najib Mikati and later in the day Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri to brief them on the extension of UNIFIL's mandate for another year. Discussions also…

The United Nations Security Council, on the request of the Government of Lebanon, yesterday unanimously adopted resolution 2004 (2011) extending without amendment the mandate of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) for a period of one year until 31 August 2012. UNIFIL Force Commander…

(Statement by UNIFL Spokesperson Neeraj Singh on the brief exchange of fire along the Blue Line, 01 August 2011) We can confirm that at around 7 am this morning there was a brief exchange of fire between the Lebanese army and the Israeli army along the Blue Line in the general area of Wazzani…

(Press Statement by UNIFIL Spokesperson Neeraj Singh on attack against UNIFIL convoy, 26 July 2011) "According to preliminary reports, at around 6 p.m. today an explosion targeted a UNIFIL convoy along the highway at Saida. Five UNIFIL peacekeepers were injured in the explosion. Three of the injured…