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Thursday, October 24, 2024
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Thursday, October 24, 2024
Lebanon PM Mikati says only the state should carry arms, does not explicitly call to disarm Hezbollah
Lebanon's Prime Minister Najib Mikati (L) speaks next to France's President Emmanuel Macron during an international press conference in support of Lebanon, in Paris on October 24, 2024 (ALAIN JOCARD / POOL / AFP)
Lebanon’s Prime Minister Najib Mikati says that only the state should carry weapons, as he pushes for a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.
“Lebanese authorities must deploy over [all] Lebanese territory and weapons should be carried only by the state and the Lebanese army,” Mikati says on the sidelines of a Lebanon aid conference in Paris, without explicitly calling for the disarmament of Hezbollah, the only group that did not lay down its arms after the end of the Lebanese civil war.
