Yesterday, in Shama's Italian base, the changeover ceremony was held to guide the Italian bilateral mission in Lebanon (MIBIL) for training and training the Lebanese security forces and make them more effective in dealing with the situation in the area. Colonel Andrea Monti ceded the command to the Parisian Maurizio Settesoldi in the presence of gen. b. Franco Federici, commander of the Sector West of UNIFIL.
In his farewell address, the col. Monti - the first commander of MIBIL - took stock of the training activities carried out one year after the mission was activated.
Beyond 1000 hours of lessons and 13 courses of various types: from the medical rescue on the battlefield, to the defense of installations, to crowd control and riot control, to then move on to civil and military cooperation and sniper and intelligence and surveillance courses.
"Italian instructors - said Colonel Monti - have contributed to the growth of the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) operational capacities by forming over 250 soldiers with activities carried out both" at home "and in the new training center of As Samayah".
Among the most significant courses and still in progress that of "Mountain Warfare" held at the Mountain Combat School of Arz and is led by the instructors of Alpine Troops Command.
The soldiers of Bolzano are carrying out practical and theoretical lessons on the most up-to-date rescue, combat and mountain survival techniques.
The MIBIL mission derives from a bilateral agreement and is part of the broader context of the initiatives of the "International Support Group for Lebanon (ISG)".
The work carried out by the Italian military of MIBIL is integrated with the task of UNIFIL which supports the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) in their redeployment in the south of the country, assists them in progressing towards the stabilization of crisis areas.
