Report: Aoun, Berri, Salam to hold consultations, new ceasefire MoU to be issued
Extensive consultations will begin in Beirut among President Joseph Aoun, Speaker Nabih Berri and PM Nawaf Salam, and also with the political forces, to "pave the way for decisions described as pivotal that Lebanon must make regarding the negotiation process between Lebanon and Israel," a media report said on Monday.
"While awaiting the crystallization of the next steps, the broad outlines of which were established during the second round of talks between the Lebanese and Israeli ambassadors at the White House, culminating in a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump, it was reported that a new U.S. memorandum will be issued by the State Department outlining renewed instructions for the ceasefire," An-Nahar newspaper reported.
"This will be followed by intensified communication between Beirut and Washington to determine the next steps during the three-week period of the renewed truce," the daily said.
"The increasing number of violations and breaches of the ceasefire in the south has become a cause for growing concern, putting the truce to the test of the underlying motives of both Israel and Hezbollah, and also strongly testing the U.S. push to launch bilateral negotiations between Lebanon and Israel," the newspaper noted.
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