Report: US military team to visit Beirut to discuss 'new roadmap'

A U.S. military delegation will soon arrive in Beirut to meet with senior Lebanese Army officers and present “a new roadmap that is stricter in the implementation of Resolution 1701 and the ceasefire agreement south and north of the Litani,” al-Akhbar newspaper reported on Wednesday.

The new roadmap will ask the army to “document all the stages of the dismantlement of military facilities and the handover of weapons, according to transparent standards that allow for inspection and international supervision,” the daily quoted informed sources as saying.

“Officers in the South Litani sector have refused a U.S.-Israeli request to blow up the resistance’s (Hezbollah’s) facilities and infrastructure instead of dismantling them and confiscating the weapons,” al-Akhbar added.