{"id":1231,"date":"2025-03-21T00:45:04","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T20:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weezharoz.com\/en\/?p=1231"},"modified":"2025-03-21T00:45:04","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T20:15:04","slug":"strengthening-security-cooperation-u-s-ambassadors-meeting-with-new-lebanese-army-chief-of-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weezharoz.com\/en\/strengthening-security-cooperation-u-s-ambassadors-meeting-with-new-lebanese-army-chief-of-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Strengthening Security Cooperation: U.S. Ambassador&#8217;s Meeting with New Lebanese Army Chief of Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Weezha Roz<\/span>-Washington<\/strong> \u2013The two sides discussed the complex missions of the Lebanese Army amidst ongoing economic and regional crises.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson highlighted U.S. support for the Lebanese military, stating: &#8220;The Lebanese Army is not only a unifying institution within the country but also a key partner in maintaining stability in the Middle East.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One of the main topics of the meeting was the Lebanese Army&#8217;s actions along the southern borders and coordination with the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) to implement United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Ambassador stressed the need to strengthen international cooperation to fully implement this resolution, particularly in disarming non-state groups and protecting civilians.<\/p>\n<p>The new Chief of Staff of the Lebanese Army thanked the U.S. for its technical and training support and expressed Beirut&#8217;s readiness for further cooperation in border security and counterterrorism efforts.<\/p>\n<p>This meeting comes at a time when Lebanon faces heightened tensions along its southern borders with Israel and increasing internal crises.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, the United States has allocated tens of millions of dollars in military and security assistance to the Lebanese Army.<\/p>\n<p>Weezha Roz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weezha Roz-Washington \u2013The two sides discussed the complex missions of the Lebanese Army amidst ongoing economic and regional crises. Johnson highlighted U.S. support for the Lebanese military, stating: &#8220;The Lebanese Army is not only a unifying institution within the country but also a key partner in maintaining stability in the Middle East.&#8221; One of the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weezharoz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weezharoz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weezharoz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weezharoz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weezharoz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weezharoz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weezharoz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weezharoz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weezharoz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weezharoz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}