00:02The United Nations said on Thursday it was working on maintaining a presence in Lebanon
00:08once the mandate for its UNFL peacekeeping force expires at the end of the year.
00:13Disarmament of armed groups cannot be achieved through force,
00:17the United Nations' top peacekeeping official warned.
00:20If you talk about enforcing disarmament, disarmament by force,
00:26I think disarming an entity which doesn't want to be disarmed peacefully,
00:35the synonymous of that is war.
00:38That is not peacekeeping.
00:39The UN Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations added the presence of Israeli forces in Lebanon
00:46violates UN Security Council Resolution 1701,
00:50which ended the 2006 war between Israel and the Hezbollah.
00:54Jean-Pierre Lacroix also called for political solutions to the ongoing conflict in Lebanon.
01:00The situation in Lebanon will have to be solved through a political agreement
01:06and a political agreement that will be implemented,
01:09implemented by the Lebanese authorities, again with the support of the international community.
01:15Lebanon and Israel are set to begin a second session of direct talks in Washington on Thursday.
01:21Lebanon and Israel are set to begin a second session of the UN Security Council.
01:24Lebanon and Israel are set to begin a second session of the UN Security Council.
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