Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri said he is ready to reach a settlement if the other side shows a similar willingness, while describing a proposed framework agreement between Lebanon and Israel as an "agreement of sedition."

In remarks published Thursday by Ad-Diyar newspaper, Berri revealed that he had previously reached an understanding with President Joseph Aoun to demand that any Israeli withdrawal be executed based on administrative districts rather than "pilot zones" and that he was later surprised that the finalized framework agreement ultimately adopted the pilot zones mechanism instead.