Brussels, April 24 -- The European union is considering deploying its own mission to southern Lebanon after the United Nations peacekeeping operation concludes, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Friday.
"We know that the UNIFIL mission is ending, and it's clear that the Lebanese armed forces need more help to disarm Hezbollah and have control over the country. We have been discussing with foreign ministers, as well as defense ministers, whether we are able to put together our own mission once UNIFIL ends, but not with the same mandate, to really address the needs that they have," Kallas said ahead of the second day of an informal EU summit in Cyprus.
This comes after a fragile truce in Lebanon has been extended by three weeks af...