Report: Salam proposes to Berri cabinet session on arms monopoly declaration
Prime Minister Nawaf Salam has returned from Paris with a proposal to Speaker Nabih Berri on holding a special cabinet session for discussing the file of arms and declaring Lebanon’s commitment to the implementation of the state’s monopoly over arms, al-Akhbar newspaper reported.
“Although Salam said that he is not committed to the agenda proposed by (U.S. envoy Tom) Barrack, he tried with the parliament speaker to reach a ‘Lebanese initiative,’” the daily said.
“Salam justified his stance by saying that that would contribute to thwarting the plans for withdrawing UNIFIL from the South and preventing the Americans from declaring escalatory stances that might become a cover for a new Israeli aggression against Lebanon,” the newspaper added.
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