Tajani's talks in Lebanon come on the same day he met Syria's de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa in his first visit to Damascus since the fall last year of long-time ruler Bashar al-Assad.
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00:00Italy's Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani has met with Lebanon's newly elected President
00:07Joseph Aoun in Beirut.
00:09Tajani praised Aoun's leadership, saying that a president with a very influential personality
00:14would help contribute towards peace in the region.
00:17Tajani also held a video call with officers and soldiers of the Italian battalion serving
00:22with UNIFIL.
00:24Italy maintains a contingent of over 1,000 peacekeepers in Lebanon.
00:29In December, Tajani condemned an attack on UNIFIL base, which wounded four Italian soldiers.
00:35The base was hit by rockets allegedly fired by Hezbollah during a year of hostilities
00:40between the militant group and Israel, which ended with a ceasefire in late November.
00:46Tajani's visit to Lebanon comes on the same day he met with Syria's de facto leader Ahmed
00:51al-Sharaa in Damascus to coordinate various post-Assad initiatives.