Newly-appointed Army Commander General Joseph Aoun took part in Sunday Mass in Bkirki, four days after the government named him as the new army chief.
Aoun has pledged to boost the military's capabilities and to do everything in his capacity so that the army remains “the certain guarantee for Lebanon's unity, sovereignty, independence and dignity.”
The security appointments that were approved on Wednesday ended a deadlock that twice forced an extension of the term of the army's sitting head.