US envoy Thomas Barrack mentioned Monday he was happy by the Lebanese authorities’ response to a request to disarm Hezbollah, which was closely weakened in a current struggle with Israel.
“I’m unbelievably satisfied with the response,” Barrack, Washington’s ambassador to Türkiye and particular envoy to Syria, advised a press convention after assembly President Joseph Aoun.
“It’s thoughtful, it’s considered. We’re creating a go-forward plan. To create that, we need dialogue. What the government gave us was something spectacular in a very short period of time,” he mentioned.
Lebanese leaders who took workplace within the aftermath of a two-month struggle between Israel and Hezbollah final yr have vowed a state monopoly on bearing arms, whereas demanding Israel adjust to a November ceasefire that sought to finish greater than a yr of hostilities.
Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem mentioned Sunday his group wouldn’t give up or lay down its weapons in response to Israeli threats, regardless of stress on the Lebanese militants to disarm.
“Hezbollah is a political party. It also has a militant aspect to it. Hezbollah needs to see that there’s a future for them, that that road is not harnessed just solely against them, and that there’s an intersection of peace and prosperity for them also,” Barrack mentioned.
He warned that “the rest of the region is moving at Mach speed, and you will be left behind”, noting that “dialogue has started between Syria and Israel, just as the dialogue needs to be reinvented by Lebanon.”
Source: www.anews.com.tr