Higher Defense Council tasked with 'devising plans' for disarming Hezbollah

The former government tasked the Higher Defense Council with “devising plans for removing weapons with the least possible damage” and Nawaf Salam’s government is “still endorsing the same plan and will not back down,” Minister of the Displaced and State Minister for Technology Affairs and Artificial Intelligence, Kamal Shehadeh, said.

“The coming months will witness our success in implementing Lebanon’s international obligations,” Shehadeh added, in an interview with Al-Arabiya’s Al-Hadath channel.

“The national security strategy calls for monopolizing weapons in the hands of the state, as mentioned in the ministerial statement,” Shehadeh said, noting that “the government pledged in its policy statement to approve a national security strategy and this is not subject to dialogue or to wasting time.”