Aoun: Our army's mission is crucial in these circumstances
President Joseph Aoun announced Monday that the Lebanese Army “has a crucial mission in these circumstances.”
“It alone -- I reiterate, it alone, without a partner, neither from outside the state nor from outside Lebanon -- has to extend our state’s authority over all its territory and borders and to impose its full sovereignty, for the Israeli attacks on our land to cease and for Israel to withdraw from the points it is occupying inside Lebanon,” Aoun added, at a joint press conference with his Bulgarian counterpart in Sofia.
“This should be accompanied by a negotiations course, which we consider as the only way to achieve our national goals and Lebanon’s higher interest, exactly as Lebanon has negotiated for more than 10 times with the unanimity of all its political forces without exception, the last of which was from 2020 to 2022 in order to accomplish maritime demarcation between Lebanon and Israel,” the president said.
Source: Naharnet
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