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10:47, May 28, 2008 |
A total of 130 Portuguese soldiers are scheduled to head for Lebanon on Wednesday for a mission as part of the United Nations Interim Forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL), the Portuguese General Staff of the Armed Forces announced on Tuesday.
The military engineering staff, from the Intervention Brigade under Lieutenant Colonel of Engineering Jorge Alves Caetano, are expected to stay in Lebanon until November as part of the UN aid mission to reconstruct the war-torn country.
They will replace the 141-strong Portuguese UNIFIL mission that has been in Lebanon since November and is scheduled to return home on Thursday.
Source:Xinhua
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