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According to the Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar, Lebanon is gradually being dragged down a dangerous path, amid the American-Israeli insistence that indirect negotiations with the enemy on the demarcation of maritime borders are the fall of the last dividing curtain, so Beirut becomes as if it has joined the knees of typists, accepting talks of a political nature.
The evidence for this unfolds, one by one. Tel Aviv cast its bait last night, announcing the delegation that will represent it at the negotiating table in Naqoura, to show that it has raised the level of representation from military technician to heavyweight politician, as the delegation will include the advisor. politician of the prime minister of the occupation, Reuven Azar, and the president. The political system in the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Alon Bar.
And Azar is not only an adviser, but heads the Tel Aviv government’s foreign policy division, which coordinates strategic political planning at the National Security Council in the interests of the Israeli “political authority.” How will Lebanon officially address this issue? Are you on the way to “take the knowledge” and adapt to it? Or is it lurking at the insistence of the Israeli enemy to drag Lebanon’s foot into a trap?
The matter is in the custody of the Lebanese President Michel Aoun. This is what the President of Parliament, Nabih Berri, said on the day he announced the Ain al-Tineh framework agreement, confirming the end of his role and the transfer of responsibilities to the first presidency and to the command of the army. This was proven by Aoun by pointing out that he received the negotiations in accordance with the stipulations of the constitution.
Baabda sources indicated that the delegation’s issue is “under discussion” and that Aoun “has initiated consultations in this field and will speak with the army leadership.”
The same sources confirmed that “there is no decision regarding the Israeli delegation. We have not been informed of anything official by the United Nations, nor have they been informed of us because the Lebanese delegation has not yet been completed.” Although Army sources confirmed that “the decision is exclusively in the hands of the President of the Republic,” they indicated that “the leadership is making routine preparations in terms of gathering information on the enemy delegation, drawing up maps and everything that surrounds the file.” .
In this context, information was discussed on the amendments that Lebanon would make to the delegation that would represent it, in response to the Israeli provocation. Note that President Aoun had decided on the names of the delegation members, namely: Pilot Brigadier General Bassam Yassin (Army Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations), plus Colonel Mazen Basbous, an expert in border negotiations, Najib Masih, and the head of the Petroleum Sector Management Authority, Wissam Shabat. And several experts. What is strange, however, is the tendency of some parties to expand the delegation to include a diplomatic figure representing the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, despite the fact that the Lebanese agreement provided for technical negotiations.
Another logistical issue that Lebanon must grapple with is the two delegations sitting in a room. It is true that they will not exchange talks directly, but Lebanon must perpetuate the idea of indirect negotiations and stick to the formula of the Committee of April 1996, of which these negotiations are an extension, to cut the way to the American “mediator” and the Israeli enemy, and prevent them from exploding the technical negotiations and turning them into a political victory. For them.
