UN Security Council
2023

Expressing its solidarity with Lebanon and its people in the aftermath of the explosions which struck Beirut on 4 August 2020, causing a significant number of casualties and wounding thousands of people, including some United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) personnel, and causing severe damages to commercial and residential infrastructures as well as to UNIFIL capacities, welcoming the 23-16869 (E) *2316869* S/RES/2695 (2023) International Conference on Assistance and Support to Lebanon and Beirut, organized on the 9 August 2020 by France and the United Nations and the follow-up International Conferences organized by France and the United Nations on 2 December 2020 and 4 August 2021, further calling the international community to reinforce its support to Lebanon and its people in that context, deploring the lack of progress of an independent, impartial, thorough and transparent investigation into the explosions by the Lebanese judicial system, and further stressing the need for such an investigation, Responding to the request of the Government of Lebanon to extend the mandate