Cabinet met on Sept. 5 in Baabda under the leadership of President Joseph Aoun. (Credit: Mohammad Yassin/L’Orient-Le Jour)
"We did not make concessions. Nor did we correct course. We continued what was started on Aug. 5 regarding a monopoly on weapons without causing any shocks," said Information Minister Paul Morcos to the press on Friday from the Baabda Presidential Palace podium after the Cabinet meeting.One month after its ‘historic’ decision to establish the State's monopoly on weapons, the Cabinet said it had "well received" the plan put forward by the army to dismantle the militias’ arsenals, starting with Hezbollah. The Cabinet, therefore, preferred to resort to a carefully measured compromise, using semantics to avoid formally adopting the army’s plan — a way not to completely alienate Hezbollah and Amal. Here's the plan L’Orient-Le Jour reveals the main elements of the Army’s plan to monopolize weapons At the same time,...
"We did not make concessions. Nor did we correct course. We continued what was started on Aug. 5 regarding a monopoly on weapons without causing any shocks," said Information Minister Paul Morcos to the press on Friday from the Baabda Presidential Palace podium after the Cabinet meeting.One month after its ‘historic’ decision to establish the State's monopoly on weapons, the Cabinet said it had "well received" the plan put forward by the army to dismantle the militias’ arsenals, starting with Hezbollah. The Cabinet, therefore, preferred to resort to a carefully measured compromise, using semantics to avoid formally adopting the army’s plan — a way not to completely alienate Hezbollah and Amal. Here's the plan L’Orient-Le Jour reveals the main elements of the Army’s plan to monopolize weapons At...
