New proposals to solve conflict in Syria

Last month in Istanbul the United Nations and the Arab League Special Representative to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi announced the initiative on the possible deployment of international peacekeeping contingent on the Syrian territory under UN auspices.

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Similar forces were deployed in neighbouring Lebanon in March 1978 in order to monitor the process of settlement of the Lebanese-Israeli conflict. Currently, they are represented by troops from Ireland, Germany, France, Spain and Italy, deployed near the border with Israel, southern Lebanon.

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