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Finnish UN peacekeepers patrol at a Lebanese checkpoint in the southern village of Mansouri, Lebanon, September 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Mohammed Zaatari)

PARIS, France — G7 foreign ministers agreed on “the need to avoid a security void” in Lebanon after UN peacekeepers pull out, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said on Tuesday after a meeting of the group in Paris.

They also backed “the need to move quickly toward a new security architecture” after the mandate of United Nations peacekeeping forces in Israel’s neighbour expires at the end of the year, he said.

But Barrot acknowledged there had been no breakthrough on what should replace the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), which has been in place since Israel’s 1978 invasion and now counts some 7,500 personnel from nearly 50 countries.

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