{"id":31535,"date":"2026-04-15T06:25:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T04:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/usa-after-meeting-in-washington-israel-and-lebanon-agree-to-start-direct-talks\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T06:25:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T04:25:25","slug":"usa-after-meeting-in-washington-israel-and-lebanon-agree-to-start-direct-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/usa-after-meeting-in-washington-israel-and-lebanon-agree-to-start-direct-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"USA after meeting in Washington: Israel and Lebanon agree to start direct talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/thumbs_b_c_6557198e563c99436e807667708fca00.jpg\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;margin-bottom:20px\"><\/p>\n<p>The US, Israel and Lebanon have agreed to start direct negotiations after a tripartite meeting held at the State Department in Washington, reports Anadolu<\/p>\n<p>State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott said the meeting organized by Secretary of State Marco Rubio and attended by Lebanese Ambassador to the US Nada Hamadeh and Israeli Ambassador Yechiel Leiter included &#8220;productive discussions&#8221; on steps towards starting talks. direct.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All parties agreed to start direct negotiations at an agreed time and place. The US expressed hope that the talks could go beyond the 2024 framework agreement and lead to a comprehensive peace agreement,&#8221; he said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, Israel &#8220;expressed support&#8221; for the disarmament of non-state armed groups and the dismantling of militant infrastructure in Lebanon, while committing to &#8220;direct negotiations&#8221; with Lebanon to &#8220;achieve this goal and guarantee the security of the peoples of both countries&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Lebanon reaffirmed the &#8220;urgent need&#8221; for the full implementation of the November 2024 agreement, emphasizing territorial integrity and sovereignty, as well as calling for a ceasefire and &#8220;concrete measures&#8221; to address the worsening humanitarian crisis in the country.<\/p>\n<p>We we use cookies to improve the experience and display ads (Google AdSense).<br \/>\n          By clicking &#8220;Accept&#8221;, you agree to the use of cookies according to<br \/>\n          Privacy Policy<br \/>\n          and<br \/>\n          Cookies Policy.<br \/>\n          You can reject non-necessary cookies by clicking &#8220;Reject&#8221;.<\/p>\n<hr style=\"margin:30px 0\">\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#666\">Source: <strong>prizrenpost<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US, Israel and Lebanon have agreed to start direct negotiations after a tripartite meeting held at the State Department in Washington, reports Anadolu State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott said the meeting organized by Secretary of State Marco Rubio and attended by Lebanese Ambassador to the US Nada Hamadeh and Israeli Ambassador Yechiel Leiter included [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[666],"class_list":["post-31535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-brief"],"views":27,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31537,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31535\/revisions\/31537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}