Egypt – Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdel Aati said on Saturday that his country is conducting “intensive contacts” to contain the ongoing escalation towards Lebanon, stressing Egypt’s keenness on the security and stability of this Arab country and the safety of its people.
This came according to what the Egyptian minister stated during a phone call he made with his Lebanese counterpart, Abdullah Bou Habib, according to a statement by the Egyptian Foreign Ministry.
During the call, Abdel-Ati expressed “Egypt’s support and assistance to brotherly Lebanon in confronting the threats surrounding it.”
He pointed out that “Egypt is conducting intensive contacts with all concerned and active parties with the aim of containing the ongoing escalation and preserving the interests of the Lebanese people.”
The Egyptian Foreign Minister expressed “deep concern over the dangerous escalation in the region and its potential impact on Lebanon’s security and stability.”
He called for “the need to combine efforts to prevent the situation from deteriorating and sliding into expanding the scope of the confrontation, in a way that leads to extremely dangerous repercussions on the security and stability of the region.”
For his part, the Lebanese Foreign Minister stressed his “keenness to coordinate on a permanent basis with Egypt regarding the very delicate circumstances facing Lebanon at this stage.”
Earlier on Saturday, the Egyptian Foreign Minister made a phone call to his Iranian counterpart, Ali Bagheri Kani, during which he stressed “the need for all parties to exercise self-restraint to prevent the situation in the region from getting out of control,” according to a statement by the Egyptian Foreign Ministry.
The Egyptian Foreign Ministry said in a statement that “the call comes within the framework of the contacts that Egypt is conducting with all concerned parties with the aim of containing the current escalation and reducing the tension witnessed in the region.”
These Egyptian contacts come amid escalating tensions in the region between Israel on the one hand and Iran and Hezbollah on the other, after Tel Aviv assassinated the party’s prominent leader Fouad Shukr in Beirut on Tuesday, and was accused of assassinating Hamas’s political bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran on Wednesday morning.
While Israel has acknowledged its responsibility for Shukr’s assassination, it has remained silent about its responsibility for Haniyeh’s assassination.
Hamas, Iran and Hezbollah have vowed to respond to the assassination of Haniyeh and Shukr, while international contacts and efforts to calm the situation continue, for fear of the conflict expanding in the region.
Tensions in the region have been escalating since October 7, 2023, against the backdrop of a war waged by Israel with American support on the Gaza Strip, which left more than 130,000 Palestinians dead and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 10,000 missing.
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2024-08-04 21:11:06
