Reports: Berri to meet Aoun as army plan details emerge
Speaker Nabih Berri is showing “major political leniency” to pass Friday’s key cabinet session in a smooth manner, the PSP’s al-Anbaa news portal reported on Tuesday.
“He will visit the Baabda Palace to meet with President Joseph Aoun over the next two days,” al-Anbaa said, adding that the two leaders will discuss “how to provide full protection for the army’s mission” of disarming Hezbollah and all armed groups in the country.
Informed sources meanwhile told al-Binaa newspaper that in the wake of Berri’s annual speech on Sunday, several meetings were held between Berri and Aoun’s adviser Andre Rahal and other meetings were held with MP Mohammad Raad.
The parties are seeking “a solution calling for devising the army’s weapons monopoly plan but without implementation deadlines pending Israel’s withdrawal from the South, the halt of violations and the implementation of the ceasefire agreement,” al-Binaa said.
The sources added that the army’s plan will be phased and will begin from the South Litani area before moving to the area north of the Litani River.
“It also involves the South, west, north and central Bekaa, the Syrian border, and Beirut and its southern suburbs. But the plan’s implementation will begin in South Litani and the condition for moving to North Litani is full Israeli withdrawal from the South and halting violations,” the sources said.
Al-Binaa, however, added that “senior leaders are being pressed to approve the army plan with specifying an immediate implementation date and a timetable for completing it.”
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