Blinken thanks Mikati for his 'leadership'
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken thanked caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati during their meeting in Jordan for his leadership “in preventing Lebanon from being pulled into a war that the Lebanese people do not want,” the U.S. State Department said.
Mikati for his part stressed “the priority of working for a ceasefire in Gaza to halt the continuous Israeli aggression there, and also working on stopping the Israeli aggression against south Lebanon,” Lebanon’s National News Agency said.
Source: Associated Press, Naharnet
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