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Saturday, November 4, 2023
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Saturday, November 4, 2023
Blinken thanks Lebanese leader for work to prevent country being ‘pulled into a war’
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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, meets with Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati at his hotel during a day of meetings, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Amman, Jordan, Saturday, Nov. 4, 2023. (Jonathan Ernst/Pool Photo via AP)
US Secretary of State Anton Blinken thanks Lebanon’s caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati for efforts to keep his country out of a war with Israel.
The powerful Lebanese-based Hezbollah terror group has been threatening to open a second front against Israel.
Blinken thanks Mikati for his leadership “in preventing Lebanon from being pulled into a war that the Lebanese people do not want,” says State Department spokesman Matthew Miller. Blinken also discusses US efforts to secure humanitarian assistance for civilians in Gaza, Miller says.
Neither Blinken nor Mikati spoke to reporters at the top of their meeting in an Amman hotel.
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