Lebanese Foreign Minister Youssef Raji, during his meeting with members of the Lebanese community in the Canadian city of Montreal, affirmed that Lebanon will not accept the presence of any weapons outside the framework of the Lebanese army, stressing his rejection of any party taking over negotiation or bargaining on behalf of the Lebanese state.
The National News Agency reported Raji as saying that restoring Lebanon's economic, cultural, and medical role requires restricting strategic decisions and decisions on war and peace to the state, affirming that Lebanon now has a new president and a new government, that there is no going back, and that Lebanese diplomacy has regained its decision-making independence.
Raji pointed out that the Lebanese government has taken brave decisions regarding restricting weapons to legitimate forces, considering the security and military activities of illegal organizations as acts outside the law, and affirming the continued direction towards implementing these decisions.
In another context, Raji revealed that he discussed with Canadian officials ways to resume direct air flights between Lebanon and Canada, and to work on removing obstacles preventing this, announcing the imminent availability of issuing biometric passports in Canada.
The Lebanese government had approved on March 2 last year a package of decisions aimed at strengthening state sovereignty and restricting weapons to it, which included banning any military or security activity by the Hezbollah militia, and obligating it to hand over its weapons to the state.
Source: Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA)
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