Following his meeting with French envoy Jean-Yves Le Drian and ahead of a session with the parliamentary Health Committee, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam took time to meet with a delegation from the syndicate of journalists, headed by Joseph Kossaifi.While acknowledging that the region is currently going through a period of turbulence, Salam stated that diplomatic efforts to secure an Israeli withdrawal have not yet reached a dead end — even as Israel’s conditions any concessions on holding political meetings between Israelis and Lebanese, which in the eyes of the Lebanese would amount to recognizing the Israel as a state. Read more Le Drian, Ortagus Beirut visits; International community impatient about reforms, disarmament “No one in Lebanon wants normalization of relations with Israel, which is, moreover, rejected by all Lebanese,”...
Following his meeting with French envoy Jean-Yves Le Drian and ahead of a session with the parliamentary Health Committee, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam took time to meet with a delegation from the syndicate of journalists, headed by Joseph Kossaifi.While acknowledging that the region is currently going through a period of turbulence, Salam stated that diplomatic efforts to secure an Israeli withdrawal have not yet reached a dead end — even as Israel’s conditions any concessions on holding political meetings between Israelis and Lebanese, which in the eyes of the Lebanese would amount to recognizing the Israel as a state. Read more Le Drian, Ortagus Beirut visits; International community impatient about reforms, disarmament “No one in Lebanon wants normalization of relations with Israel, which is, moreover, rejected by all...
