US releases full text of Trilateral Framework with Lebanon, US

The United States announced on Friday that it has reached a trilateral agreement with Israel and Lebanon, aiming to create a path to peace and establish diplomatic relations between the two countries. The full text of the Trilateral Framework details the intentions of both nations.

Israel and Lebanon affirm the right of each state to exist in peace and their mutual desire to live in security as neighboring sovereign states. They declare their intent to conclusively end the conflict, address its underlying causes, and formally conclude any state of war between them. This Framework, reached after multiple rounds of direct negotiations with U.S. mediation, builds upon previous agreements and expresses a determination to make irreversible progress toward a comprehensive resolution of all issues.

The Government of Israel and the Government of Lebanon commit to a reciprocal, sequenced process. The Lebanese Armed Forces will restore effective sovereign authority over all Lebanese territory, pending the verified disarmament of non-state armed groups and dismantlement of associated infrastructure. This will enable the Israel Defense Forces to progressively redeploy out of Lebanese territory. The components of this process will be detailed in a Security Annex, developed with U.S. support, that will complement this Framework.

Pursuant to the Security Annex, and as part of the broader effort toward the Lebanese state’s monopoly of arms and sovereign territorial control, the LAF will gradually assume full and effective security responsibility in pilot zones. These zones will serve as the mechanism for phased and verified redeployments of the IDF and the deployments of the LAF. Two initial zones have been agreed upon by the IDF and the LAF, and future pilot zones will also be agreed upon by mutual consent. Successful implementation of this Framework will pave the way for a stable and peaceful relationship between the two countries.