Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam says it is premature to talk of any high-level meeting between Lebanon and Israel, Reuters reports.

Salam, in comments carried by Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA), says shoring up a ceasefire will be the basis for any new round of negotiations that might be held by Lebanese and Israeli government envoys in Washington.

Salam says Lebanon is not seeking normalisation with Israel, but rather achieving peace.

The current circumstances “are not ripe to talk about high-level meetings,” he adds, according to NNA.

“Our minimum demand is a timetable for Israel’s withdrawal,” he says, adding that the government will develop its plan to restrict weapons to state control — an effort aimed at securing Hezbollah’s disarmament.