US Deputy Special Envoy Morgan Ortagus arrived at Rafic Hariri International Airport in Beirut on Sunday morning as part of a visit focused exclusively on security issues in Lebanon.
Ortagus then traveled directly from the airport to UNIFIL headquarters in Ras Naqoura to attend a meeting of the Ceasefire Supervision Committee, in the presence of Centcom commander Admiral Brad Cooper. The meeting was followed by a tour of the delegation south of the Litani River.
At the conclusion of the meeting, Admiral Cooper and Ortagus flew over the border area between the central and western sectors aboard a Lebanese Army military helicopter to assess the situation on the ground, before returning to Beirut.
An agreement was reached to reactivate the role of the mechanism tasked with monitoring violations and to resume operations after a period of slowdown.
Admiral Cooper spent last night in Cyprus, where he held meetings, before returning to Beirut this morning to attend the committee meeting. He is also expected to tour the southern border.
In the same context, it was reported that “Lebanon has been informed that there will be a change in the leadership of the ceasefire monitoring commission: General Leeney will be replaced in two weeks by another American general.”
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