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Monday, March 30, 2026
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Monday, March 30, 2026
France seeks emergency UNSC meeting after strikes kill UN peacekeepers in Lebanon
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France's Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-Noel Barrot gives a press conference after a crisis meeting in Paris on March 2, 2026. (Thibault Camus / POOL / AFP)
France’s foreign minister Jean-Noel Barrot says he has requested an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council following “the extremely serious incidents” targeting UN peacekeepers in Lebanon that killed one Indonesian national.
“Such attacks near UN peacekeeping positions are unacceptable and unjustifiable,” Barrot says, adding that France is calling “for a full investigation into the circumstances of these tragedies.”
The peacekeeper from Indonesia was the first from the UN’s peacekeeping force, known as UNIFIL, to be killed in the renewed fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed Lebanese terror group Hezbollah, which erupted on March 2 when Hezbollah began attack Israel.
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