Mikati: Lebanon ready for talks on long-term border stability

Lebanon's caretaker prime minister, Najib Mikati, told a senior United Nations official on Tuesday that his country was ready for talks on long-term stability on its southern border with Israel, Report informs, citing Reuters.

Mikati's office said in a statement that he met UN Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix in Beirut to reiterate "Lebanon's readiness to enter negotiations to achieve a long-term process of stability in southern Lebanon" along the border with Israel.

"We seek permanent stability and call for a lasting peaceful solution, but in return, we receive warnings through international envoys about a war in Lebanon," Mikati said.

Last year, US envoy Amos Hochstein floated the possibility of talks on drawing the land border between Israel and Lebanon after having mediated a 2022 deal setting the maritime borders between the two countries.