Lebanon’s president Thursday met with the recently-appointed U.S. general heading a committee monitoring the fragile ceasefire between Israel and the Hezbollah militant group.

Joseph Aoun’s meeting with Gen. Joseph Clearfield comes almost a year after a Washington-brokered agreement halted the latest Israel-Hezbollah war.

It also comes as Lebanon recently passed a plan to gradually disarm Hezbollah and expand the deployment of Lebanese army soldiers in the country’s south.

The committee also includes France and the United Nations’ peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon, known as UNIFIL.

Israel still controls five hill-top points and still strikes Lebanon almost daily.

Hezbollah has not fired at Israel and maintains it no longer has an armed presence in the south.

Aoun said the Lebanese military has been seizing weapons and ammunition, and has urged Israel to withdraw its forces and stop its attacks.

However, Israel says that Hezbollah is trying to rebuild its capacity and still maintains an armed presence in the south.

Clearfield also met with Speaker Nabih Berri, a key political ally of Hezbollah, who has been actively involved the negotiations.

Shuttle diplomacy from Washington envoys have thus far failed to reduce the tension or speed up the process of disarming Hezbollah.

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