Compliance with protocol to maintain good relations --- CIMIC personnel are well acquainted with the local and regional authorities (political and religious leaders) of the AOR and their levels of responsibility and influence in society, who are regularly invited and attend institutional events held at the base, often in the presence of Lebanese national authorities and diplomatic personnel. When designing the protocol of the rostrum at events such as the "The Medal Parade", the Protocol Department of the General Staff follows the spanish internal regulations, noting for years the problems generated by the NON-COMPLIANCE with the specific regulations of the country , so that the religious authorities must occupy the front line.This issue has cost years of internal discussions and unjustified justifications towards the authorities, straining in many occasions the relations with the religious leaders and especially the Islamic ones. Hence the NEED to enforce "the recommendations in this regard".

Source author: Virginia Maria Callau Vidal vircavidal@hotmail.com