Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri has accused the U.S. of sidelining France from the ceasefire monitoring committee in order to monopolize the entire decision-making in the committee alongside Israel.

The U.S.-led committee monitoring the ceasefire, which includes representatives from the United States, France, Lebanon, Israel and the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), had met this Wednesday. The meeting in Naqoura in south Lebanon did not include civilians, which Speaker Berri described as a result of the American attempt to monopolize the decisions of the committee.