{"id":531937,"date":"2026-07-08T21:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T21:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/531937\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T21:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T21:55:10","slug":"lebanons-aoun-says-upcoming-washington-visit-aims-to-halt-conflict-with-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/531937\/","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon&#8217;s Aoun Says Upcoming Washington Visit Aims\u00a0To\u00a0Halt Conflict with Israel\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lebanese President Joseph Aoun said Wednesday that his upcoming visit to Washington is intended to advance efforts to end the conflict between Lebanon and Israel through negotiations, expressing hope that talks with President Donald Trump will produce a lasting solution.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI expect that my upcoming visit to Washington and my meeting with US President Donald Trump will bring positive outcomes for Lebanon \u2026 to find a permanent solution to the cycle of wars and Israeli attacks on our country,\u201d Aoun said in a statement issued by the presidency.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Aoun said the planned negotiations are aimed at halting Israeli military operations in Lebanon and\u00a0ultimately ending\u00a0what he described as the \u201cIsraeli occupation.\u201d He added that\u00a0a majority of\u00a0the Lebanese people support pursuing negotiations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>US officials announced Tuesday that Aoun will visit the White House on July 21. The trip will mark his first official visit to Washington since taking office.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes as diplomatic contacts between Israel and Lebanon continue.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa\u2019ar said Tuesday that the next round of negotiations between the two countries is expected to take place in Rome next week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0previous\u00a0round of talks was held in Washington in late June. Those discussions concluded with a framework agreement intended to strengthen the ceasefire and reduce tensions along the Lebanon-Israel border.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lebanese President Joseph Aoun said Wednesday that his upcoming visit to Washington is intended to advance efforts to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-531937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}