What did Egyptian foreign minister propose in Beirut?
Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty carried to Beirut a proposal involving a declaration by Hezbollah that it accepts to hand over its weapons south and north of the Litani River, Lebanon’s al-Binaa newspaper reported on Friday.
The suggestion also entails an announcement by Israel that it would withdraw from two of the five occupied hills, after which negotiations would kick off in Cairo with Arab and international sponsorship in order to reach a Gaza-like agreement, the daily said.
In an interview published Friday, the head of Hezbollah’s parliamentary bloc MP Mohammad Raad called the Egyptian proposal preliminary and an attempt to “think out loud.”
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