NNA - Prime Minister Najib Mikati announced, in a statement on Saturday, that he has cancelled his trip to New York and chose to remain in Beirut in light of the continued Israeli aggression against Lebanon.

He said: “I had intended to travel to New York as part of the intensification of Lebanese diplomatic action, during the work of the United Nations General Assembly, to stop the prolonged Israeli aggression against Lebanon and the massacres committed by the enemy. However, in light of developments related to the Israeli aggression, I decided to refrain from traveling and agreed, after consultation and coordination with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, on the headlines of urgent foreign diplomatic action at this stage."

Mikati reiterated that "there is no priority at the present time higher than stopping the massacres committed by the Israeli enemy and the multiple types of wars it is waging."

He added: "I also urge the international community and the human conscience to take a clear position on these terrible massacres."

"We also demand the adoption of international laws to spare civilian technological means from being military and war targets," Mikati concluded.

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