PM Netanyahu Meets with French Armed Forces Minister Sébastien Lecornu
Israel - Prime Minister's Office
The 37th Government
22.01.2024
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, today, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, met with French Armed Forces Minister Sébastien Lecornu.
At the start of their meeting, the Prime Minister asked the French Armed Forces Minister to convey to French President Emmanuel Macron his deep gratitude for the latter's role in delivering the medicines to the hostages in Gaza. Prime Minister Netanyahu noted that Israel is still waiting for proof that the medicines have reached their destination and emphasized that the implementation of the understandings must be monitored.
The two sides discussed the Lebanese issue at length. The Prime Minister emphasized that the need to distance Hezbollah terrorists from the border constitutes a national goal of the State of Israel, based on the principles of UN Security Council Resolution #1701, and said that this goal can be implemented diplomatically or in other ways.
The Director of the National Security Council, the Prime Minister's Military Secretary, the Prime Minister's Foreign Policy Adviser, the IDF Attaché in Paris and the French Ambassador to Israel participated in the meeting.
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