On Thursday evening 31 August, the spokesperson for the European External Action Service (EEAS) welcomed the adoption on Wednesday of UN Security Council Resolution 2373 renewing the mandate of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL). The mandate expired at the end of August and has been extended for a year.
In the spokesperson’s press release, it was pointed out that the EU “reaffirms its full support to UNIFIL, including its maritime component, whose deployment, alongside...