Tajani asserted in a hearing before the Joint Foreign Affairs and Defense Committees of Parliament that preparations are underway for the next round of talks between Israel and Lebanon, following those held in this city on July 14-15.

The foreign minister underscored that those talks, which took place in mid-July at the US Embassy in Rome, yielded some progress in the process of ending Tel Aviv’s strikes on the Arab country, which have already caused more than 4,000 deaths.

Those talks, he said, helped define the beginning of the Israel Defense Forces’ withdrawal from the so-called pilot zones.

The mechanism for establishing pilot zones in southern Lebanon, currently under Israeli military control, focuses debates.

According to the framework agreement signed in Washington by both parties, these zones are to be handed over to the Lebanese Armed Forces following the disarmament of Hezbollah.

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