US envoy Amos Hochstein says in Beirut that he will travel on to Israel to try to bring truce talks to a close after making “additional progress” in a second meeting with Lebanese parliament speaker Nabih Berri.
Hochstein says he sees a “real opportunity” to end the conflict after the Lebanese government and Hezbollah agreed to a US ceasefire proposal, although with some outstanding issues.
“The meeting today built on the meeting yesterday, and made additional progress,” Hochstein says. “So I will travel from here in a couple hours to Israel to try to bring this to a close if we can.”
According to US news site Axios, Hochstein is slated to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday.
Hochstein adds that he will work with the incoming administration of US President-elect Donald Trump on truce efforts to end more than a year of fighting between Iran-backed group Hezbollah and the Israeli military, noting that he has kept the transition team in the loop.
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