Shiite ministers to attend cabinet session on arms monopoly, report says
Diplomatic efforts to cool political tensions are ongoing, ahead of a Cabinet session that will discuss Friday a plan prepared by the army to implement the state's monopoly on arms, Asharq al-Awsat newspaper said Monday.
The daily quoted a minister as saying that Amal and Hezbollah's ministers will attend Friday's session, securing a "full quorum", and that Hezbollah has no intention to boycott it and call for street protests on Friday.
He added that President Joseph Aoun is in direct and indirect talks with Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, and Hezbollah's leadership in an attempt to ease the tensions ahead of the thorny session.
According to the minister, the Lebanese government is committed to the state's monopoly on arms, which enjoys broad Lebanese, Arab, and international support and will not be "lured into an Israeli political trap" to drag Lebanon into clashing with the international community.
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