Paris: French
Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot has called on Israel to comply with the
protocol of the agreement signed between the United States and Iran, which
provides for an end to the conflict in the Middle East, including Lebanon.
Barrot
said the agreement requires a cessation of hostilities and stressed that Israel
should abide by it, adding that the United States should exert the necessary
pressure to ensure compliance. He downplayed the postponement of talks
scheduled to begin in Switzerland, saying the delay should not be
overinterpreted as long as the agreement had already been signed in Versailles,
and stressed the priority is for discussions to continue.
Meanwhile, Israeli airstrikes on southern Lebanon early Saturday killed 18 people and injured 33 others, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Health, despite the ceasefire under the US-Iran memorandum of understanding.
