Report: Lebanon pressed to pick figure to negotiate with Israel's Dermer

After President Joseph Aoun’s initiative for indirect negotiations with Israel made tangible progress and discussions reached the extent of forming the negotiating team and the political representative level, the president is still mulling his steps very carefully, the Nidaa al-Watan newspaper reported on Tuesday.

“There are huge international pressures to raise the level of negotiations and make them between Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer and someone equivalent to him on the Lebanese level, in order to seriously discuss the pending issues,” the daily said.

“In this regard, the Syrian-Israeli direct negotiations represent a helping factor to launch a similar Lebanese track under U.S. sponsorship, especially amid the absence of any other alternative but coercive subjugation,” the newspaper added.