Report: Communication ongoing between Hochstein, Ain el-Tineh
Direct and indirect communication is still ongoing between U.S. mediator Amos Hochstein and Speaker Nabih Berri regarding the border conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, a diplomatic source said.
The source added, in remarks to the Nidaa al-Watan daily, that “the pending point is the Israeli insistence on a step-by-step approach in the implementation of Resolution 1701, which stands for a gradual implementation.”
“This means that the Israeli side wants to negotiate over the implementation of every article of the resolution’s articles, which indicates that it wants to waste time and this might take years. This is rejected by Lebanon, seeing as what’s needed is to implement the resolution in one batch and without any scheduling,” the source added.
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