Lebanon’s Cabinet met Friday to review a plan drafted by the Lebanese army aimed at disarming Hezbollah and placing all weapons under state control, as the group's allies walked out of the meeting.
Upon the arrival of the army chief, Gen. Rudolph Haikal, ministers from Hezbollah’s political bloc, as well as the allied Shiite Amal party and independent Shiite minister Fadi Makki withdrew from the meeting room. The Hezbollah and Amal ministers then left the government palace.
The Shiite ministers had also walked out in protest from the meeting last month in which the Cabinet commissioned the army to draw up a disarmament plan.
"The Lebanese army will begin implementing the (Hezbollah disarmament) plan, but in accordance with the available capabilities, which are limited in terms of logistics, material and human resources," Information Minister Paul Morcos said when speaking to journalists after the session.
The cabinet decided to keep the details of the army's plan "secret" according to a statement read by Morcos.
