GCC calls on Lebanon to prevent Hezbollah from conducting 'terrorist operations'

FILE PHOTO: Foreign ministers of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) meet in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, June 16, 2021. Saudi Press Agency/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo

RIYADH (Reuters) - The Gulf Cooperation Council called on Lebanon to prevent Hezbollah from conducting "terrorist operations", strengthen its military and ensure that arms are limited to "legitimate state institutions", the six-member group's Secretary General Nayef Falah Mubarak al-Hajraf said on Tuesday.

He also called on Lebanon to tighten border controls and take measures to deter drug smuggling via exports into Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states.