Interior Minister Ziad Baroud stressed that efforts to make Beirut weapons free do not target Hizbullah and said the ministerial committee tasked with recommending measures against arms should clarify the thin line between the resistance and uncontrolled weapons.
In remarks to As Safir newspaper on Monday, Baroud said: "We are not asked to discuss the disarming of the resistance not even in Beirut."

Baroud was referring to the first meeting of the committee that will be held at the Grand Serail on Monday under Premier Saad Hariri upon his return from Damascus.

The meeting "should take certain measures, discuss the organization of licenses to carry arms and suppress armed gangs," the minister said.

"We could agree with the resistance on a formula about the particularity of its weapons in Beirut," he added.