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LBCI
6 days ago
- Business
- LBCI
President Aoun and PM Salam discuss financial and judicial appointments ahead of cabinet session: LBCI sources
Sources told LBCI that President Joseph Aoun and Prime Minister Nawaf Salam held discussions at the Baabda Palace on Thursday to address upcoming financial and judicial appointments. According to sources, the Cabinet is expected to announce the appointment of new members to the Banking Control Commission of Lebanon during its scheduled session on Friday.
Asharq Al-Awsat
07-07-2025
- Politics
- Asharq Al-Awsat
Barrack ‘Satisfied' with Lebanon Reply to US Roadmap to Disarm Hezbollah
US envoy Thomas Barrack said on Monday that he was "unbelievably satisfied" with the Lebanese government's reply to an American proposal on how to disarm Hezbollah. "What the government gave us was something spectacular in a very short period of time. I'm unbelievably satisfied with the response," Barrack told reporters after meeting Lebanese President Joseph Aoun at Baabda Palace, without giving details of the response. Aoun's team gave Barrack a seven-page reply to his June 19 proposal. Hezbollah emerged badly damaged from a war with Israel last year that eliminated much of the group's leadership, killed thousands of its fighters and left tens of thousands of its supporters displaced from their destroyed homes. The group has been under pressure in recent months both within Lebanon and from Washington to completely relinquish its weapons. Barrack's proposal would see Hezbollah fully disarmed within four months in exchange for the withdrawal of Israeli troops occupying several posts in south Lebanon and a halt to Israeli airstrikes. Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem reiterated Sunday the group's refusal to lay down its weapons before Israel withdraws from all of southern Lebanon and stops its airstrikes. Hezbollah has already relinquished a number of weapons depots in southern Lebanon to the Lebanese army in line with a US-brokered truce that ended last year's war. The truce also stipulates that Israeli troops withdraw. Hezbollah has pointed to the troops' continued occupation of at least five posts in southern Lebanon as a main violation. 'How can you expect us not to stand firm while the Israeli enemy continues its aggression, continues to occupy the five points, and continues to enter our territories and kill?' Qassem said in a video address on Sunday. 'We will not be part of legitimizing the occupation in Lebanon and the region. We will not accept normalization (with Israel).'
LBCI
07-07-2025
- Politics
- LBCI
In pictures: President Aoun meets US envoy Tom Barrack
Lebanon's President Joseph Aoun met Monday with U.S. envoy Tom Barrack at Baabda Palace for talks described as high-stakes. The meeting was also attended by U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Lisa Johnson.
LBCI
07-07-2025
- Politics
- LBCI
Lebanon's response shows openness to tackle Hezbollah weapons issue, sources tell LBCI
Sources at Baabda Palace told LBCI that Lebanon's official response to the U.S. proposal emphasized the government's increased willingness to take on the issue of Hezbollah's weapons, framing it not as an act of retaliation or war against the group. The sources added that Hezbollah has not submitted any written response regarding the U.S. paper. Other sources familiar with U.S. envoy Tom Barrack's visit said Israel will be briefed on the outcome of his talks in Lebanon. Meanwhile, the U.S. ambassador to Beirut is awaiting clarifications on specific amendments made to Lebanon's official response to the proposal.
LBCI
01-07-2025
- LBCI
Tourism Minister says Lebanon's summer tourism season poised for recovery
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun met with Tourism Minister Laura Al-Khazen Lahoud at the Baabda Presidential Palace to review the ministry's plans for the upcoming summer season and ongoing efforts to reopen Jeita Grotto to the public. The discussions also covered preparations for Lebanon's international festivals, which are expected to resume this summer following an improvement in the security situation. Minister Lahoud expressed optimism that Lebanon's tourism season would be successful, noting that travel bookings to Lebanon, as well as hotel and restaurant reservations, had resumed after a wave of cancellations and delays triggered by the recent Israeli-Iranian confrontations.
