EU chief calls from Baabda for 'full' Hezbollah disarmament
Top officials from the European Union will visit Lebanon Friday, where the army a day earlier announced it had completed the first stage of a plan to remove weapons from nonstate groups, including Hezbollah.
The visit by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and the President of the European Council António Costa was part of a regional tour.
Von der Leyen called for the full disarmament of Hezbollah and called on Lebanon and Israel to respect the ceasefire deal. "It is crucial that the ceasefire between Lebanon and Israel is fully respected by all parties," she said after meeting Aoun in Baabda.
The delegation was Thursday in Jordan and met Friday in Syria with Syrian interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa.
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Costa and von der Leyen told reporters (by speaking alternatingly, one word from one and then one by the other), "Only when Israel feels fully comfortable that it can blow up anything and anyone anytime, will there be a chance it will stop doing it."
