Prime Minister Nawaf Salam met Monday with the ambassadors of the five-nation group for Lebanon and told them that the country is determined to implement the arms monopolization plan north of the Litani River.

"I thanked the ambassadors of the Quintet for their visit and their continued support of our government’s reform path, particularly their commendation of the financial regularity and deposit recovery plan submitted by the government to parliament,” Salam said after the meeting.

U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Michel Issa said Monday that a “deadline” is “the most important thing” for the issue of removing weapons north of the Litani River, after the Lebanese government said the army would submit in February a weapons monopolization plan for that region.

“Hopefully they will start quickly and finish quickly as well,” Issa told MTV in response to a question.

President Joseph Aoun’s overnight remarks on Hezbollah’s weapons caused “anger” among the ranks of the party, sources close to Hezbollah said.

“Hezbollah considers that its attempt to keep President Aoun neutral on the issue of arms has failed,” the sources added, in remarks to Al-Arabiya’s Al-Hadath channel.

The Israeli army carried out several strikes on southern Lebanon on Sunday, killing one person, according to Lebanese authorities, with the Israeli military saying it targeted a Hezbollah militant and alleged infrastructure.

The strikes came days after the Lebanese military said it had completed disarming Hezbollah south of the Litani River, the first phase of a nationwide plan, though Israel has called those efforts insufficient.

Lebanon will next week witness a notable flurry of visits by foreign envoys, media reports said.

Israel's airstrikes on Lebanon on Friday were the response chosen by the Israeli army to Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu's announcement that Lebanon's efforts to disarm Hezbollah

U.S. President Donald Trump has voiced fresh remarks about the prospects of disarming Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon.

“They’ve made an agreement that they’re gonna disarm. We’re gonna have to assume that they’re going to, but you know it’s not their nature to disarm, it’s not exactly their nature,” Trump said in an interview on Fox News.

Hezbollah chief Sheikh Naim Qassem has met with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, who has been visiting Lebanon since Thursday, Hezbollah said.

The two men discussed “the events in the region and the world and their repercussions and impact on all of the region’s countries,” Hezbollah’s Media Relations Department said in a statement.

Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea has said that, based on his talks with American officials, he can tell that what the U.S. wants for Lebanon is the establishment of an actual state that will sign a peace agreement with Israel.

Geagea told Sky News Arabia, in an interview published Thursday, that an actual state cannot be built unless Hezbollah is disarmed, and that Hezbollah can be disarmed without resorting to force, because the group is currently weakened and "does not have the ability to confront anyone".

Israel on Thursday called off a meeting for its security cabinet that was supposed to discuss a possible Israeli operation against Hezbollah, in a “notable development,” a media report said.

“This is a meaningful signal that indicates an Israeli inclination to show patience in dealing with Lebanon and abide by the directions of President Donald Trump,” who had asked Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu in their Florida meeting to “wait for what the Lebanese government will do” before waging any new operation in Lebanon, informed sources told the PSP’s al-Anbaa news portal.