A UN Security Council resolution demanding the disarmament of Lebanese militias does not apply to the Hizbollah guerrilla group but the group will be disarmed, Lebanon's new prime minister, Najib Mikati, said on Friday. The disarming of Hizbollah, however, "would have to be in the context of a Lebanese framework," Mikati told Arab-language reporters after meeting with UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. "They will. I said it," he said in Arabic when asked if the group would be disarmed. But "in our terminology, Hizbollah is not a militia. It is a resistance (group), and we believe that there is a difference between a resistance and a militia," Mikati told Reuters in English. "To a certain extent," he said, without elaboration, when asked if that meant the resolution did not apply to Hizbollah. |