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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9255

1 September 2006
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/un/lebanon
UNIFIL deployment to be “adjusted” to situation on the ground, says Jean-Marie Guéhénno, stressing responsibility of Lebanese government

Brussels, 31/08/2006 (Agence Europe) - “We shall deploy the number necessary. If 15,000 men are needed, we shall deploy them. If we realise that more are needed, then we shall ask for more. If fewer men are needed, fewer men will be deployed. We shall adjust the numbers according to the situation on the ground”. Such was the response given by Jean-Marie Ghéhénno, who heads the United Nations peacekeeping operations, to the question put to him in an interview with Le Monde on 31 August....

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