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After months of stagnation: Israel and Lebanon will resume negotiations on the maritime border

On Tuesday, the parties will meet at the UN base in Nakura with the US mediator for talks on marking the border in an attempt to resolve the dispute over gas reserves in the Mediterranean.

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Thursday, 29 April 2021, 20:48

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In the video: The Israeli delegation crosses the Lebanese border (Photo: Reuters, Editing: Nir Chen)

Israel and Lebanon will resume talks next Tuesday on marking the maritime border between them after questions were cut off about four months ago amid disagreements between the parties and a change of government in the United States. And American realtor John Drusher will participate in them as well.

In recent weeks, it has been reported in the Lebanese media that the Lebanese government, under pressure from Hezbollah, is interested in informing the UN that it is significantly expanding its demands regarding the maritime border with Israel, and entrusting the UN with a more southern border line within Israeli territory.

In response, Israel threatened that if it did, it would also expand its demands for a maritime border and a position at the UN on a more northern border line within Lebanese territory.

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The American mediator will participate in the talks.

UN base in Nakura (Photo: Reuters)

Two weeks ago, US Secretary of State David Hale visited Beirut and raised the issue of resuming negotiations with Israel in talks with President Michel Aoun and other senior officials. Before leaving for Beirut, Hale and the US mediator spoke in talks with Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz, who leads the government Israel.

A senior Israeli source noted that the Americans continued their contacts with Lebanon and Israel even after Hale's visit to Beirut. The Americans persuaded the Lebanese not to deposit a new border line at the UN and asked Israel to withdraw from its threat. "The Lebanese have come down from the tree and reasonable conditions have been created for a return to sensible negotiations," the senior official said. "We want to reach a compromise and put this issue behind us."

Negotiations on the maritime border between Israel and Lebanon began in mid-October 2020. This was the first time in 30 years that official representatives of Israel and Lebanon conducted political negotiations.

The controversy at the center of the talks concerns the issue of economic water, the area in which the state has rights to use natural resources, and in this case - gas reserves worth billions of dollars.

After four rounds of negotiations the talks stalled.

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