Lebanon, the command of the Unifil mission returns to an Italian



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It will again be an Italian army to command the UN mission in Lebanon: UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has appointed General Unifil, the general Stefano Del Col, in place of the Irishman Michael Beary, August 7 will conclude the two years of his command. Del Col will be sitting on the chair occupied in 2007 by Claudio Graziano, now Chief of the Defense Staff, as well as by Generals Paolo Serra (2012) and Luciano Portolano (2014).

For Del Col is a return: in Lebanon General has already ordered the Unifil Battle Group in 2008 and the West sector of the mission in 2015. Del Col, born in Pordenone in 1961, is an officer of Bersaglieri. He is now deputy head of the cabinet of the Ministry of Defense, having commanded the 11th Battalion Bersaglieri, the Regiment of 8 Bersaglieri at Caserta and the Pinerolo Brigade in Bari, as well as the Kfor operation in Kosovo in 2001. Graduate and advanced in Strategic Science and International and Diplomatic Sciences, he was liaison officer with the British Army at Upavon, head of national planning and born to the General Staff of the United States. Army and Chief Strategic Officer at the Defense General Staff.

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