Hochstein delays departure to Beirut: Report

US presidential envoy Amos Hochstein informed Lebanon's Speaker of Parliament Nabih Berri that he is delaying his departure for Beirut, which was scheduled for Tuesday, Axios reports.

Axios says Hochstein's trip is delayed until he gets "more clarifications about the Lebanese position regarding the ceasefire agreement".

Reports in Lebanon over the weekend said that both the Lebanese government and Hezbollah had delivered a largely positive response to the ceasefire proposal.

🚨🇺🇸🇱🇧🇮🇱U.S. envoy Amos Hochstein informed the Lebanese Speaker of Parliament, Nabih Berri, that he is delaying his departure to Beirut until getting more clarifications about the Lebanese position regarding the cease-fire agreement, U.S. officials told me

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