Hezbollah denies report, says state in charge of border talks with Israel
Hezbollah on Tuesday denied a media report about future border talks with Israel, stressing that such negotiations are the responsibility of the Lebanese state.
“The Nidaa al-Watan newspaper today published a fabricated and insulting report about what it called the file of indirect negotiations over the land border between Lebanon and occupied Palestine,” Hezbollah said in a statement.
“Indirect negotiations are exclusively in the hands of the Lebanese state and accordingly what was mentioned in the aforementioned report is totally baseless,” Hezbollah added.
The newspaper had quoted diplomatic sources as saying that “the U.S. has been informed via the communication channels with Beirut that Hezbollah … has ended its authorization for Speaker Nabih Berri and caretaker PM Najib Mikati to negotiate over the border file on behalf of Hezbollah.”
Source: Naharnet
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