Lebanon’s Foreign Minister Youssef Raggi told his Polish counterpart that Beirut has decided to “engage in direct negotiations” with Israel in the aim of reaching a “permanent ceasefire and ensuring the complete Israeli withdrawal from Lebanese territories”, Al Jazeera reports.

The Lebanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs posts on X that the Polish Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Radosław Sikorski, called Raggi by phone and that the pair discussed “the latest security developments in Lebanon”.

Sikorski gave his country’s support for Lebanon, emphasising Poland’s “categorical rejection” of any attempts to annex “any portion of Lebanese territory” or to alter the nation’s internationally recognised borders.