| Washington's ambassador to Beirut on Wednesday called on the Lebanese government to deploy its army "very quickly" to the Israeli border area and disarm Hezbollah fighters there. "It's the responsibility of the Lebanese government to exercise control over the border area. It's essential that this happens very quickly," Jeffrey Feltman told a press conference in the capital, adding that it was up to the government to "disarm the militias". "The disarming of Lebanese militias has been done in the past, so why not again?" asked Feltman, referring to militias that were disbanded after the 1975-90 Lebanese civil war. Feltman said he was very serious about seeing Resolution 1559 implemented and that: "We want the Syrian army to leave Lebanon." |