Foreign Affairs: Xinhua News Agency reported today that US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that his administration will allow US airlines to resume direct flights to Lebanon, ending a suspension that has been in place for more than four decades.
I am instructing my administration to allow all US airlines to resume direct flights to Lebanon, Trump said in a post on his Truth Social after meeting with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun at the White House this morning.
Direct commercial flights between the United States and Lebanon were suspended in 1985 under US President Ronald Reagan following the hijacking of TWA Flight 847, during which militants affiliated with Hezbollah seized passengers. and 163 sailors held hostage for 17 days and killed US Navy diver Robert Stem.
It is worth noting that Aoun is the first Lebanese head of state to visit the White House since 2009.
Translation: Sun Li
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