Lebanese President Joseph Aoun began talks in Paris on Friday with French President Emmanuel Macron to discuss economic reforms and efforts to stabilise the country, as a fragile truce between Israel and Hezbollah increasingly comes under pressure.
Making his first trip to a Western nation, Aoun was seeking to shore up support from Paris after the new prime minister, Nawaf Salam, succeeded in putting together a government after two years of stalemate.
"It seems to us today that we have to move forward on the possibility of a complete respect of the cease-fire," a French presidency official told reporters ahead of the visit, whose country, along with the U.S., is a guarantor of the accord.
The official said Paris was in contact with President Donald Trump's Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff and his deputy Morgan Ortagus on the issue.