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Israel and Lebanon to resume maritime border talks - report
Lebanon s President Michel Aoun has reportedly agreed to allow negotiations to resume over the disputed water, with US mediation.
Negotiations between Israel and Lebanon over their disputed maritime border will resume next week, Lebanese newspaper Al Akhbar reports. According to the report, US representatives including US Ambassador in Lebanon Dorothy Shea have told Lebanon s President Michel Aoun that Israel agrees to return to the talks next Tuesday. Aoun is scheduled to meet with the senior military figures who were conducting the talks, which were broken off last fall because of opposition from Hezbollah.
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Lebanese President Michel Aoun, right, meets with US Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs David Hale, center, and, US Ambassador to Lebanon Dorothy Shea, left, at the presidential palace, in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon, April 15, 2021. (Dalati Nohra/Lebanese Official Government via AP)
BEIRUT Lebanon’s President Michel Aoun Thursday demanded Israel halt all exploration in an offshore gas field on its southern border, as part of an ongoing dispute over their shared sea frontier.
The countries, which are still technically at war, last year took part in indirect US-brokered talks to discuss demarcation to clear the way for offshore oil and gas exploration.