Reports: Lebanon receives positive message after Trump-Sisi call
Communication took place between the Lebanese and Egyptian presidencies prior to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s meeting with his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump at the Davos summit, media reports said.
“Al-Sisi was told that Lebanon is implementing the government’s plan for collecting Hezbollah’s arms and that Israel has not fulfilled anything of what was agreed on with the Americans,” diplomatic sources told An-Nahar newspaper.
Egypt meanwhile focused on “the need to understand Lebanon’s situation” and what the state and its institutions are facing due to the “continued Israeli intransigence,” the daily said.
After the meeting between Trump and al-Sisi, the Lebanese presidency received an urgent and “positive” message from Cairo and it turned out that Trump understands the circumstances of the Lebanese government and the difficulties it is facing, the newspaper added.
A statement issued by the Egyptian president had said that al-Sisi stressed to Trump “the importance of the U.S. role in halting the attacks and violations against Lebanon’s sovereignty.”
Egyptian diplomatic sources meanwhile said that Cairo is “carrying out a series of contacts with several countries, especially with the Americans, with the aim of helping Lebanon and fending off the dangers it is facing.”
“Cairo will spare no effort to benefit from anything that contributes to supporting and immunizing Lebanon,” the sources added.
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