Foreign Ministry: Russia is ready to send engineering units to Lebanon

The Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov confirmed that Russia is ready to send engineering and surveying army units to Lebanon. However, I made a reservation that this should not be considered as a contribution to the UN peacekeeping operation.

Last Sunday, the possibility of sending engineering troops to Lebanon, the head of the Russian Ministry of Defense Sergei Ivanov stated. Minister of Defense Sergey Ivanov "said that we will be ready to assist Livan through the engineering and self-sapping units of the Russian army with the possible involvement of the Ministry of Emergencies to assist in the restoration of infrastructure," Lavrov said in an interview with Rossiy Gazeta , which will be published on Wednesday.

According to Lavrov, in Lebanon, "many roads and bridges were destroyed." "The country has lost the opportunity to live a single state. Of course, the problem of ensuring reliable communication between the individual parts of Lebanon remains very relevant," Topax quoted the words of the Russian Foreign Ministry.

"We really consider the possibility of assisting in restoring the life support structures of the Lebanese state. I would not, at the same time, say that this will be our contribution to a peacekeeping operation," Lavrov said.

According to him, "we want to hold special negotiations with the Lebanese government and understand how much our possibilities that we are ready to offer fit into the needs declared by the country's leadership."

"In Beirut, we will definitely talk with the Prime Minister of Lebanon about what the optimal forms of our contribution to the restoration of destroyed infrastructure can be," said the Russian Foreign Minister.

In accordance with the resolution of 1701 SB UN, adopted on August 22, the personnel of the Blue Helmets corps, introduced into the Lebanese territory in June 1974, should be increased to 15 thousand people. The backbone of international stabilization forces will compose contingents of the NATO European countries.