UN Urges Talks on Lebanon Peacekeeping Mandate
UN peacekeeping chief Jean-Pierre Lacroix urged the Security Council to quickly discuss UNIFIL’s future as Lebanon seeks an extension beyond the mission’s scheduled end in December 2026. Lebanese leaders say continued Israeli military presence and insecurity make peacekeepers necessary to prevent a security vacuum, while the United States opposes extending the mandate.
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About Jean-Pierre Lacroix
Jean-Pierre François Renaud Lacroix is a French diplomat who has served as the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations since 1 April 2017. Prior to this, he worked at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs as Director for the United Nations between 2014 and 2017, and before that as France's ambassador to Sweden beginning in 2011.
Everything about Jean-Pierre Lacroix →- Occupation
- diplomat
- Position held
- ambassador of France to Sweden, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations
- Citizenship
- France
- Born
- May 2, 1960
- Website
- http://blog.diplomatie.gouv.fr/_Jean-Pierre-Lacroix