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Lebanese PM urges international help to bolster military, recruit 8,000 new soldiers
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleInternational support will be needed to shore up and expand Lebanon’s army and rebuild the country’s destroyed infrastructure, caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati tells a Paris conference convened amid Israel’s offensive on Hezbollah.
Mikati said the Lebanese government had decided to recruit more troops and could deploy 8,000 soldiers as part of a plan to implement a ceasefire and a 2006 UN Security Council resolution, which calls for the army to be deployed in southern Lebanon.
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