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Lebanese President Joseph Aoun will meet U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House on Tuesday to present a plan on how to \u200bdisarm Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah and secure Israel’s withdrawal from Lebanon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Aoun, who served as the commander of Lebanon’s U.S.-backed army before being elected president last year, is the \u200cfirst Lebanese head of state in nearly 20 years to visit the White House, where he will meet Trump face-to-face for the first time.

The meeting comes at a crucial moment for Lebanon: Israeli troops are occupying a swathe of the country’s south, hundreds of thousands of Lebanese remain displaced following Israeli strikes and Hezbollah has firmly rejected the government’s direct talks with Israel — and efforts by the state to strip it of its arms.
Aoun arrived in Washington at the weekend \u200band met with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Sunday, telling him that Israel should begin withdrawing from southern Lebanon in line with a U.S.-brokered June 26 agreement between Lebanon \u200band Israel.

A Lebanese \u2060official said Aoun believes only Trump possesses the leverage needed to pressure Israel to withdraw its troops and help Lebanon restore its sovereignty. The official said that Aoun, in addition to asking \u200bthe U.S. president to press Israel to withdraw, would also present Trump with a written proposal on how to decommission Hezbollah’s massive arsenal.
SEEKING HEZBOLLAH’S DISARMAMENT
Aoun, 62, became president just before Trump began his second \u200bterm in the White House. The U.S. welcomed Aoun’s election.
Aoun is a Maronite Christian, as required by Lebanon’s sectarian power-sharing system which stipulates the prime minister must be Sunni Muslim and the speaker of parliament must be Shi’ite Muslim. A career soldier, Aoun was wounded twice and still carries a shrapnel wound.
His rise reflected a major shift in the power balance in Lebanon, following a devastating Israeli offensive against Hezbollah in 2024 and the ousting of \u200bHezbollah’s Syrian ally President Bashar al-Assad \u2014 seismic events that weakened the group and its long-decisive hold over the state.
At his swearing-in ceremony, Aoun vowed to affirm “the state’s right to a monopoly on arms”.
His \u200bpresidency’s first year was defined by a government bid to secure the disarmament of Hezbollah, which was founded by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards in 1982 and has fought numerous wars with Israel.
Lebanese troops deployed in southern Lebanon \u200cto collect Hezbollah weapons \u2060caches, in line with a ceasefire after the 2024 war and without opposition from a weakened Hezbollah.
A NEW WAR ERUPTS
But early into his term’s second year, a new war erupted when Hezbollah fired at Israel on March 2 in support of Iran, which was under U.S. and Israeli attack.
Hezbollah’s attack triggered a fierce Israeli air and ground campaign that has killed more than 4,300 people, according to Lebanon’s health ministry, including nearly 800 children, women and medics.
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