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Italian Navy: turnover yesterday at the Unifil

Rome, Italy - Handed over to the French Navy

"The Rear Admiral Ruggiero Di Biase, in the waters near Beirut, has ceded yesterday, on September 1st, the leadership of the UNIFIL (United Nations Interim Force In Lebanon), named Task Force 448, to the Rear Admiral Alain Hinden of the French Navy. The period of Italian leadership of Task Force has begun last February 20, when an Euromarfor Naval Group was started in Taranto's base led by rear...

fra/pec - 1093742
Rome, Italy, 09/02/2008 11:37
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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