Belgium sent 350 peacekeepers to Lebanon
14:14 // 10/17/2006 Belgium transferred 350 military personnel to Lebanon, who became part of the UN peacekeeping contingent in this Middle Eastern country, RIA Novosti reported. A limited military contingent from Belgium, deployed in the city of Tibnin in the southeast of Lebanon, 12 kilometers from the border with Israel, consists mainly of military personnel of engineering, sapper and medical troops. Belgian peacekeepers were entrusted, in particular, the deployment of a field hospital.