(Zaman) - Ankara underlined that it has not taken a decision about contributing to the proposed international force to be deployed to southern Lebanon as foreseen by the United Nations Security Council, while the U.N. announced that Turkey has expressed its willingness to contribute, reports Trend.
U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Mark Malloch Brown said the peacekeeping force to be deployed to southern Lebanon will mainly have a European and Muslim character.
And therefore there will be Muslim troops, probably not from the immediate neighborhood, but, you know, Indonesia has expressed a willingness to contribute, as has Turkey. And I think those kinds of contributions are going to be vital, if this force is going to be seen not as some sort of intrusion or invasion or effort to sort of use force against Hezbollah, but it's seen as we want it to be seen, as a peacekeeping force, Brown said during a speech broadcast on American PBS TV.