Salam meets Berri in Ain el-Tineh
by Naharnet Newsdesk 02 June 2025, 12:41
Prime Minister Nawaf Salam and Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri met Monday in Ain el-Tineh, as the gap between Salam and Berri's ally Hezbollah seemed to widen over the group's disarmament.
Berri on Friday told local al-Joumhouria newspaper that "if Salam escalates, we will escalate and if he chooses to calm things down, we will calm them down," after Salam said in recent comments that the era of "exporting the Iranian revolution has ended" and that the state "will not remain silent over any arms outside the state's control".
In his interview with al-Joumhouria, Berri also urged the government to prioritize the construction of war-hit regions, saying it's the government's responsibility "whether it likes it or not."
Berri had met last Friday with President Joseph Aoun at the Baabda Palace, in talks he described as "excellent."
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