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India connected Wednesday (March 11, joined astir 30 troop-contributing countries to the UNIFIL to explicit heavy alarm astatine the escalation of hostilities successful Lebanon and powerfully condemn Hezbollah’s “reckless decision” to articulation the Iranian attacks against Israel this month.
India is among the 50 countries that lend troops to the United Nations Interim Force In Lebanon (UNIFIL).
“Today I joined our partners to showcase our enactment to the brave women and men deployed arsenic peacekeepers successful #UNIFIL arsenic they look increasing threats and challenges,” India’s Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Parvathaneni Harish said successful a station connected X.
Indian peacekeepers with a agelong lasting committedness to the UNIFIL proceed to execute their mandate and supply assistance to locals adjacent during these challenging times, helium said.
“We are unequivocally against immoderate attacks connected @UN Peacekeepers for which determination tin beryllium nary justification,” Harish said, adding that the UN Security Council solution 2589 testifies to India’s committedness towards information and information of peacekeepers.
Today I joined our partners to showcase our enactment to the brave women and men deployed arsenic peacekeepers successful #UNIFIL arsenic they look increasing threats and challenges.
Indian Peacekeepers with a agelong lasting committedness to UNIFIL proceed to execute their mandate and supply assistance to… pic.twitter.com/fLenA8vXC2
UNSC solution 2589, adopted successful August 2021 nether India’s Presidency of the 15-nation Council, called connected Member States hosting oregon having hosted United Nations peacekeeping operations, to instrumentality each due measures to bring to justness perpetrators of the sidesplitting of United Nations unit and to beforehand accountability for unit against UN unit serving successful peacekeeping operations.
Mr. Harish joined the Permanent Representatives of astir 30 UN Member States astatine the Security Council stakeout arsenic they expressed heavy alarm astatine the escalation of hostilities successful Lebanon.
Permanent Representative of France to the United Nations Ambassador Jérôme Bonnafont work a associated connection regarding the existent escalation successful Lebanon connected behalf of countries including Armenia, Austria, Bahrain, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Greece, India, Ireland, Italy, Nepal, Panama, Poland, Portugal, South Korea, Spain, United Kingdom and Uruguay.
“We, troop-contributing countries to the UN peacekeeping Force successful Lebanon (UNIFIL), joined by respective different subordinate states, explicit our heavy alarm astatine the escalation of hostilities successful Lebanon.
“We telephone connected parties to urgently instrumentality to the cessation of hostilities arrangement,” the associated connection said.
It said that faced with war, Lebanon indispensable beryllium supported. “Its sovereignty and territorial integrity indispensable beryllium preserved. We explicit our afloat solidarity with Lebanon and the Lebanese people.” The associated connection condemned successful the strongest presumption Hezbollah’s “reckless decision” to articulation the Iranian attacks against Israel since March 2, 2026, dragging Lebanon successful a warfare neither its authorities nor its colonisation wanted.
“We impulse Hezbollah to instantly cease its occurrence toward Israel, and to springiness up its weapons. We enactment the effort of the Government of Lebanon toward the swift implementation of Resolution 1701,” which calls for ending hostilities betwixt Hezbollah and Israel.
The countries, done the associated statement, urged Israel to abstain from attacks against civilian infrastructure and heavy populated areas and to respect the Lebanese sovereignty and its territorial integrity.
“All parties indispensable respect planetary law, including planetary humanitarian law, and guarantee the extortion of civilians and civilian infrastructure,” it said.
The associated connection commended the Lebanese government’s caller decisions to dismantle Hezbollah’s information and subject activities successful Lebanon.
“We basal acceptable to summation our enactment to the Lebanese State’s sovereignty and its equipped forces to guarantee power of the territory and stabilise the country,” the associated connection said.
Nearly a cardinal Lebanese civilians person fled their homes pursuing Israeli evacuation orders to flight hostilities. “We perpetrate to enactment the Lebanese government’s effect to the needs of the displaced colonisation and their big communities, and with the enactment of humanitarian actors successful Lebanon, including UN agencies, the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, planetary and section NGOs,” the connection said.
The associated connection besides condemned successful the strongest presumption the onslaught that affected the Ghanaian contingent of UNIFIL successful its basal successful southwestern Lebanon past week, saying those liable for the onslaught indispensable beryllium held accountable.
“We impulse each parties, nether each circumstances, to guarantee the information and information of UNIFIL unit and premises, successful accordance with planetary law. Peacekeepers indispensable ne'er beryllium the people of attacks oregon intimidation of immoderate kind,” it said.
As of February 2026, UNIFIL’s unit consists of 7,538 peacekeepers from 48 troop-contributing countries, including 642 unit from India, the 4th highest aft Italy (784), Indonesia (756) and Spain (660).
