Israel to complete pullout today

Published October 1, 2006

BEIRUT, Sept 30: Lebanon said on Saturday that it had been informed by UN peacekeepers that Israel was finally poised to complete its promised pullout from the south, weeks after a UN Security Council truce resolution came into force on Aug 14.

A government spokesman said the French commander of the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), Gen Alain Pellegrini, had told Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora that Israel would pull out the last of its troops on Sunday. “Gen Pellegrini contacted Prime Minister Fuad Siniora to inform him that the Israeli army has undertaken to complete its withdrawal from south Lebanon on Sunday,” the spokesman said.—AFP

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