Hezbollah reportedly preparing its own response to US paper
Hezbollah is waiting to receive a copy of the Lebanese paper that is being prepared by President Joseph Aoun, Speaker Nabih Berri and PM Nawaf Salam in response to the paper submitted by U.S. envoy Tom Barrack, informed political sources said.
The Lebanese response will consider the current government's Ministerial Statement as 'a Lebanese acknowledgment of the monopolization of arms in the hands of the state' and will demand that Israel stop its strikes and release the Lebanese captives, the sources told ad-Diyar newspaper.
The sources also revealed that a panel formed by Hezbollah is about to finalize its own 'paper,' which will be 'more than mere remarks or amendments, but rather a complete paper detailing Hezbollah's stance on the points mentioned in the U.S. paper.'
Hezbollah's stance 'will stress that Lebanon has committed and implemented what it had pledged to do' and will 'reject any attempts aimed at passing a new agreement that replaces the November 27 agreement,' the sources added.
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