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And the Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar officially wrote today, that the Lebanese delegation that will head to Naqoura next Wednesday has not been announced yet. The only sure news is what the army leadership announced about a meeting its commander had.
General Joseph Aoun, with the delegation in charge of the negotiation, believes that what has not been disclosed are the additional members. In the last two days, the President of the Republic (and some of his advisers) had the idea that the negotiating team would include a representative of the Lebanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Hadi Hashem (director of the minister’s office and advisor to the former minister, Gebran Bassil), in addition to the head of the Petroleum Administration and the February Medal, while it was notable to discuss Antoun Choucair, Director General of the Presidency of the Republic, will be present at the negotiations!
This angered the March 8 team and the concerns of Hezbollah and the Amal movement.. Attempts by the Israeli government to give the negotiations a political character, by including government officials in the enemy delegation, require Lebanon to adopt a position of rejection and insist on limiting representation to the military and technical levels. There are those in Lebanon who try to reciprocate by electing political and civil government figures to represent Lebanon, pointing out that the negotiation that will take place is to resolve a conflict with an enemy state, and this is what is supposed to be limited to the negotiating role only with the army. Therefore, the calls did not stop in the last two days, to argue with Aoun and advise him not to fall into a trap.
Al-Akhbar learned that the Speaker of Parliament, Nabih Berri, could speak to Aoun about the matter, because he was previously in charge of the file, and to confirm that the framework agreement and its first clause is confirmed based on experience positive of the tripartite mechanism that has existed since the understandings of April 1996.» This means that the mission is assigned only to the army. While information was circulating about the contacts that led to the withdrawal of the idea of a Lebanese diplomat.
Presidential sources said that Choucair will likely attend the opening session, for symbolic reasons! Without explaining this symbolism, he confirmed that February would be part of the delegation. What raises the question is the insistence on the existence of a civil government figure. The negotiation process is based on the demarcation of borders and not on oil wealth, so what need does a person have as an officer from within the delegation, more than to give it a character that goes beyond the technical and military character? As if someone were trying to give a signal that responds to what the American mediator wants, and considers that this represents the last opportunity to solve part of the economic and financial problems of the country.!
