Hezbollah official to Reuters: Cabinet move on army plan is 'opportunity to return to wisdom and reason'

BEIRUT (Reuters) -Hezbollah official Mahmoud Qmati told Reuters on Saturday that the group considered Friday’s cabinet session on an army plan to establish a state monopoly on arms "an opportunity to return to wisdom and reason, preventing the country from slipping into the unknown".

Lebanon's cabinet on Friday welcomed a plan by the army that would disarm Hezbollah and said the military would begin executing it, without setting a timeframe for implementation and cautioning that the army had limited capabilities.

It said continued Israeli military operations in Lebanon would hamper the army's progress.

(Reporting by Laila Bassam, Writing by Maya Gebeily, Editing by Jan Harvey)