2024-07-07 03:44:43
A Lebanese source was briefed on the atmosphere of meetings between U.S. presidential envoy Amos Hochstein in France, particularly with French presidential envoy Jean-Yves Le Drian, and communications with Lebanese officials following those meetings. Later, he said, “The United States and France are ready to cooperate with any truce or ceasefire in Lebanon from the Gaza Strip.”
Sources told the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Anbaa that “the discussions held in Paris between the US and French presidential envoys were based on data indicating that the situation in Gaza and Lebanon was at least moving towards a truce,” Hochstein told Le Drian when the ceasefire was announced. After that, I will immediately go to Lebanon to seize the opportunity and quickly start…negotiations to implement the political part of International Resolution 1701, specifically determine the land boundaries and mutual arrangement boundaries between the two sides, and move from the cessation of hostilities that has continued since 2006 to a ceasefire.
The source said the most important thing Hochstein said to Le Drian was that “the border agreement between Lebanon and Israel is almost complete, I would even say it is complete, all that is needed is to finalize the agreement” . The operation of the International Emergency Force (UNIFIL), according to the text of resolution 1701, means that weapons in the area are limited to the Lebanese army.
The source noted that “these arrangements may be enough to avoid adding additional guarantees related to the President of the Republic and the President himself, whom Hezbollah has always said does not want his role in stabbing France in the back.” The five-member Arab and International Council reiterated With this in mind, the council will function at the presidential level with the support of the United States and Arab countries, while benefiting from the tacit understanding between Washington and Tehran that has been evident in the Iran war not to expand the war, which translates into Iran’s response to the conflict. Party pressure, and the United States also exerting pressure on Israel, prevented the situation from escalating into a “great” war.
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