Italy To Commit 2,500 Troops To Lebanon

Rome, Italy (AHN) - The Italian government confirmed on Monday that it will contribute to the planned international peacekeeping force that will be deployed in southern Lebanon to help maintain the fragile cease-fire in the region.

Italian undersecretary Enrico Letta said the government approved on Monday Italy's participation in the U.N.-backed peacekeeping mission.

Earlier reports from Apcom news agency said Italy will be contributing some 2,500 of the planned 15,000 troops to form part of UNIFIL-2.

Italian Premier Romano Prodi has been campaigning to get cooperation among European countries to contribute to the mission. U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan has asked Italy to head the mission from February 2007, after France.

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