U.S. Embassy Denies Holding Talks with 'Terrorist Hizbullah'
The United States embassy in Lebanon denied on Tuesday reports saying U.S. officials have been engaged in talks with Hizbullah.
"No official at the embassy has or is engaged in discussion with members of the terrorist organization Hizbullah,” the Embassy clarified to Naharnet in a statement.
The Kuwaiti al-Anbaa newspaper reported on Monday that indirect and secret contacts are ongoing between Hizbullah and the U.S. embassy in Lebanon.
The daily quoted a March 14 MP as saying that the “relations between the Hizbullah and the U.S. are developing positively.”
The MP also noted that U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon David Hale informed various Lebanese leaders that “a cabinet can not be formed without Hizbullah participation.”
However, the embassy's statement also denied this claim, stressing that the makeup of the new Lebanese cabinet is to be decided by the Lebanese people only.
"We will judge the government not by its numbers, but by its composition, mandate and actions,” it remarked.
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