Lebanese premier says 1st phase of plan to place weapons under state control ‘days away from completion’

Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said Saturday that the first phase of the army’s plan to confine weapons to state control south of the Litani River is “days away from completion,” confirming that Lebanon is ready to move to the second phase of the plan, Anadolu reports. His remarks came during a meeting in Beirut with Simon Karam, head of the Lebanese delegation to the ceasefire monitoring committee with Israel, who briefed him on the details and outcome of the committee’s latest meeting. “The first phase of the plan to confine weapons south of the Litani River is just days away from completion,” he said in his comments cited by a statement from his office. Lebanon “is ready to move to […]