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2025-05-21 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
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Ortagus says Lebanon has ''more'' to do on Hezbollah disarming
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[NAHARNET] Leb
 ...The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else?...
still has "more" to do in disarming Hezbollah following the war between the Iran-backed group and Israel, Deputy U.S. Envoy for the Middle East Morgan Ortagus said Tuesday.
As part of a deal agreed to end 14 months of fighting last November, Hezbollah was to withdraw its fighters north of Lebanon's Litani River, while Israel was to pull all its forces from south Lebanon.
The Lebanese Army has been deploying in the area as Israeli forces have withdrawn and has been dismantling Hezbollah infrastructure there.
U.N. peacekeepers are also present in the area and play a role in supervising the ceasefire.
Lebanese authorities "have done more in the last six months than they probably have in the last 15 years," Ortagus said at the Qatar
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Economic Forum referring to efforts to disarm Hezbollah.
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alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk...
there's a lot more to go," she added.
"We in the United States have called for the full disarmament of Hezbollah. And so that doesn't mean just south of the Litani. That means in the whole country," Ortagus said at the Qatar conference calling on Lebanese politicians "to make a decision."
Israel has continued to launch raids on Lebanon despite the ceasefire.
Last month, President Joseph Aoun said the army was deployed in more than 85 percent of Lebanon's south, and that the sole obstacle to full control across the frontier area was "Israel's occupation of five border positions".
In defiance of the ceasefire agreement, the Israeli military continues to occupy five positions close to the border that it has declared to be strategic. 
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