Rudolf Hikel, Commander of the Lebanese Army, met and talked with Nicole Schilling, the Deputy Minister of Defense of Germany, in the "Yerza" area. The main focus of this meeting was to review the next steps after the end of the mission of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) on December 31.
In this meeting, ways to strengthen the bilateral cooperation between the Lebanese army and the German army were also discussed. UNIFIL is a mission created by the UN Security Council in March 1978 after the Israeli attack on Lebanon and served as a buffer between the two sides; However, his presence could not prevent several periods of conflict, including the recent war between Israel and Hezbollah.