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When will the UN negotiations between Lebanon and “Israel” begin?
Wednesday, October 14, 2020.
Where will the meeting take place?
On the “Israeli” Lebanese border.
On Tuesday, Israeli officials announced that an “Israeli-Lebanese” agreement on the demarcation of the water borders between the two countries would likely be reached in weeks or months.
The Israeli-Lebanese negotiations will begin, in the presence of the United States and the United Nations, tomorrow, Wednesday, at the United Nations headquarters in the Naqoura region, on the border between the Israeli occupation state and Lebanon.
Israeli media, including the “Walla” news site, reported statements by Israeli Energy Ministry officials about these negotiations.
“If Lebanese representatives arrive to negotiate with Israel on the maritime borders with a positive and practical approach, it will be possible to move quickly and reach an agreement in weeks or months,” Israeli officials said.
The officials pointed out that the negotiations will begin tomorrow at 10:00 am, adding that “the two delegations will meet in a large tent, at the United Nations base in the Naqoura (area), in the presence of representatives of the United States of America and the United Nations “.
They indicated that “the Trump administration has appointed the former US ambassador to Algeria, John Dorscher, to the position of mediator between the two parties, and he will participate in all rounds of talks.”
The head of the Israeli negotiating team will be the Director General of the Israeli Ministry of Energy, Udi Adiri.
As Israeli officials put it: “Our goal is to resolve the dispute over the demarcation of economic water borders between countries. This is not a peace process. This is not normalization.”
They added: “The objective of the negotiations is specific, which is to resolve a minor technical and economic conflict that prevents the development of gas and oil resources in the eastern Mediterranean.”
And the speaker of the Lebanese parliament, Nabih Berri, announced last month that a “framework agreement” had been reached to start negotiations between his country and Israel to demarcate the borders.
Berri said, during a press conference, that “negotiations to demarcate the borders with Israel will be carried out under the auspices of the United Nations.”
At the same time, Berri considered that the United States “is aware that the governments of Lebanon and Israel are willing to demarcate the borders based on the positive experience of the existing mechanism of understanding (ceasefire) of April 1996, and currently under Resolution 1701 “.
The April 1996 Understanding was an informal written agreement between “Israel” and Hezbollah, reached thanks to the diplomatic efforts of the United States, which ended the military conflict between the two parties.
While the Security Council adopted Resolution 1701, on August 11, 2006, calling for the cessation of all hostilities between Lebanon and “Israel”.
Lebanon is immersed in a conflict with “Israel” over an area in the Mediterranean, of about 860 square kilometers, known as Zone No. 9, rich in oil and gas, and Beirut announced in January 2016 the launch of its first round of exploration licenses.
This comes after the UAE and Bahrain normalized their relations with “Israel” last September, and the recent talk about the upcoming normalization of the Arab countries with him, amid widespread disapproval from the Arab public.
