Aoun and Berri discuss outcome of Ortagus' visit to Lebanon
President Joseph Aoun met Monday at the presidential palace with Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri.
A Presidency statement said Aoun and Berri discussed “the general situations, especially the developments in the South, in addition to the outcome of Deputy U.S. Special Envoy to Middle East Morgan Ortagus’ visit to Lebanon.”
Israel has continued to launch strikes on Lebanon since the November 27 ceasefire that largely halted more than a year of hostilities, with raids this week in south Lebanon and even on Hezbollah's south Beirut stronghold.
The truce accord was based on a U.N. Security Council resolution that says Lebanese troops and U.N. peacekeepers should be the only forces in south Lebanon, and calls for the disarmament of all non-state groups.
A Lebanese official said Saturday that Ortagus discussed "intensifying and speeding up" the Lebanese Army's work in "dismantling Hezbollah's military infrastructure, leading to restricting weapons to state hands, without setting a timetable."
Source: Naharnet
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