Shiite Duo ministers to attend Thursday's cabinet session on US paper

Environment Minister Tamara al-Zein of the Amal Movement and Health Minister Rakan Nassereddine of Hezbollah will attend Thursday’s cabinet session that will tackle the latest U.S. paper on Hezbollah’s disarmament, the PSP’s al-Anbaa news portal reported, quoting an unnamed source.

Al-Zein and Nassereddine “are supposed to attend the session, unless certain developments take place in the next two days,” the source said.

“They walked out of the (cabinet) session (on Tuesday) in the last minutes, after they took part in all discussions, which were good, positive and extensive,” the source added.

A Hezbollah statement said Wednesday that the two ministers walked out of the session “in rejection of this decision and to reflect the rejection of the resistance, with all the significant segments of the Lebanese society that it represents, who belong to all regions, sects and parties, and also to reflect the broad popular rejection of the decision to subject Lebanon to U.S. hegemony and Israeli occupation.”