Ambassador Ghassan Tueni, Lebanon’s Ambassador to the United Nations, said today that a Lebanese request for the dispatch of U.S. troops to his country would come only in the context of a comprehensive plan leading to the restoration of Lebanese sovereignty.
In an interview on CBS-TV Morning News program, Tueni said his country would not accept such American intervention merely to remove the PLO forces from west Beirut, but he suggested that a multinational force sent as part of a plan to remove all foreign elements from Lebanon would be welcomed.
When President Reagan announced yesterday that he had “agreed in principle” to send U.S. forces as part of a multinational force for “temporary peacekeeping,” he said the proposal would be implemented only upon request from Lebanon and would depend on further agreement between Lebanon, Israel and the Palestinian leaders.
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