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Rubio Announces U.S.-Lebanon-Israel Trilateral Framework at Signing Ceremony

June 26, 2026 · U.S. Department of State · 0:09:18

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What happened

Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced what he called a framework agreement between the sovereign Government of Lebanon and the Government of Israel, reached with the mediation and support of the United States, at a trilateral signing ceremony at the State Department. He said the framework begins to put in place the structure for lasting peace and security that both nations deserve.

Rubio said the people of Lebanon have suffered for decades from outside interference and from actors using their country as a launchpad for attacks, and that they deserve to recover the prosperous, peaceful, diverse country Lebanon once was. He said the people of Israel — particularly in the north, who he said have been repeatedly targeted by terrorist attacks launched from Lebanese territory by an outside actor, not by the Lebanese people or government — deserve to live in peace and security.

Calling the signing, in his words, the beginning of the beginning, Rubio said the United States does not underestimate the difficulty of the work ahead. He thanked Lebanese Ambassador Nada Hamadeh Moawad, Israeli Ambassador Yechiel Leiter, State Department Counselor Dan Holler, the U.S. ambassador to Lebanon, and the Department of War for their roles, and praised the State Department team as an example of the value of professional diplomatic work.

Why it matters

The ceremony marks a formal U.S.-mediated framework between Lebanon and Israel — two states with no diplomatic relations — and positions the State Department’s diplomacy as the mechanism for durable security on Israel’s northern border.

Scoreboard watch

Rubio described the June 26, 2026 framework as the first step toward lasting peace and security between Lebanon and Israel; implementation steps under the framework are checkable against subsequent State Department announcements.

Sources: U.S. Department of State, “Trilateral Framework Signing Ceremony Between the United States, Lebanon, and Israel”, 2026-06-26 (official upload, embedded above; published 2026-06-26). Transcript via Supadata (private research store, paraphrased and attributed, not republished). All figures and characterizations as stated by the speakers.