Rajji denies presence of Israeli-US-Lebanese 'understanding'
Foreign Minister Youssef Rajji has denied a media report published by U.S. news portal Axios about the presence of an alleged “quiet understanding” between Israel, Lebanon and the U.S. over Israel’s continued military presence in five posts in south Lebanon.
“We don’t have any knowledge of the existence of such an alleged understanding,” Rajji said.
Axios has quoted U.S. and Israeli officials as saying that there is a “quiet understanding” between Israel, Lebanon and the U.S. that the Israeli presence “will continue for several weeks or months until the Lebanese army stabilizes the situation in southern Lebanon and ensures Hezbollah is no longer a threat.”
The Israeli army has almost entirely pulled out from southern Lebanon, but Israeli soldiers stayed in five positions several hundreds meters inside Lebanese territory. The Lebanese government has officially said it opposes the Israeli army’s presence in those positions.
Source: Naharnet
| Copyright © 2012 Naharnet.com. All Rights Reserved. | https://naharnet.com/stories/en/311429 |