Lebanese MP warns of ‘repeat of 1982’ if UN peacekeepers are replaced by multinational force

BEIRUT: Replacing the UN’s peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon with a multinational force could leave the country vulnerable to renewed instability and a repeat of the experience of 1982, when the Israeli army launched a full-scale invasion of southern Lebanon, an independent Lebanese MP warned. Melhem Khalaf told Arab News that any agreement to bring foreign troops into Lebanon outside of a UN mandate would require approval by the country’s parliament, under Article 52 of the Lebanese Cons