Salam, ministers mull stronger diplomatic action in face of Israel
Prime Minister Nawaf Salam and a number of ministers are currently discussing possible diplomatic and political measures that the government should take to confront Israel’s reluctance to implement the November 27 ceasefire agreement, a prominent ministerial source said.
“The debate kicked off based on the fact that the political efforts have not yet led to tangible results and that there is a problem related to the competency of the Foreign Ministry’s work, especially the performance of Minister Youssef Rajji, amid a belief that the latter is not concerned, neither personally nor politically, with carrying out a special effort in this regard,” the source told al-Akhbar newspaper in remarks published Wednesday.
“The discussions are taking a serious direction, especially with the presence of figures in the government who are capable of conducting high-level contacts on the regional and international levels,” the source said.
“There is a need to press these contacts, not only to respond to the demands of the South’s residents or political forces, but also to confront the state of impasse resulting from the setback that the U.S. mediation efforts have suffered, seeing as the efforts of U.S. envoy Tom Barrack and his colleague Morgan Ortagus have not achieved the needed progress,” the source added.
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