Necva Tastan Sevinc<\/p>\n
27 June 2026\u2022Update: 27 June 2026<\/p>\n
Italy is ready to provide diplomatic support for the newly signed Israel-Lebanon agreement and could contribute to a future international mission following the mandate of the UN peacekeeping force, Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Speaking at a news conference in Dubrovnik, Croatia, where he is attending an international forum and the MED-9 summit, Tajani described the agreement as “certainly a step forward,” while cautioning that it will take time for the situation to stabilize.<\/p>\n
“It is important that the goal of signing has already been achieved,” he said, adding that Italy is prepared to “provide diplomatic support” and “play a role with our armed forces, with an international mission after UNIFIL.”<\/p>\n
Tajani said he has spoken with Italy’s embassy in Beirut and that the initial signals following the agreement are positive.<\/p>\n
“Now we need to translate the agreement into practical action,” he said.<\/p>\n
The minister added that Italy, together with France, can play “a significant role” in rebuilding Lebanon, including strengthening its institutions to better guarantee the country’s sovereignty.<\/p>\n
Regarding the possibility of a post-UNIFIL mission, Tajani stressed that any international deployment would have to be based on a multilateral agreement and said participation by Arab and Gulf countries should not be ruled out.<\/p>\n
Commenting on Hezbollah, Tajani said the agreement is unlikely to benefit the group because it can ultimately reduce its influence and lead to its disarmament.<\/p>\n
“We need to see whether Iran will favor the agreement or not. That is the issue. However, the agreement reached in Washington is certainly not a victory for Hezbollah,” he said.<\/p>\n
“Hezbollah cannot continue to play a military role outside Lebanese institutional legality; it has always represented a threat to peace, but also a threat to Lebanon,” Tajani added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Necva Tastan Sevinc 27 June 2026\u2022Update: 27 June 2026 Italy is ready to provide diplomatic support for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":513677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43,180804],"class_list":["post-513676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-sitekeywords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}