OREANDA-NEWS  French President Emmanuel Macron believes that the two-week ceasefire reached by Tehran and Washington should apply to all conflict zones, including Lebanon. He hopes that it will be fully respected.

Macron spoke by phone with US President Donald Trump, Iranian President Masoud Peseshkian, as well as Lebanese President Joseph Aoun.

"I expressed the hope that the ceasefire would be fully respected by each of the warring parties in all conflict zones, including Lebanon. This is a necessary condition for a cease-fire to be credible and long-term," Macron wrote on the social network X.

He noted that the decision to cease fire "was the best possible one."

According to him, the cease-fire "should open the way to comprehensive negotiations capable of ensuring the security of the entire Middle East," while any future agreement should take into account "concerns" about Iran's nuclear and missile programs, as well as about its "policies and actions that prevent ships from passing through the Strait of Hormuz."

Macron also said that he had spoken with Aoun and Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam.

"I expressed France's full solidarity with Israel's indiscriminate attacks on Lebanon. (...) We condemn these strikes in the strongest terms," the French leader wrote, adding that such strikes "threaten the stability" of the truce.

"Lebanon should be fully covered by this agreement. I confirmed the need to preserve Lebanon's territorial integrity and France's determination to support the efforts of the Lebanese authorities to protect the country's sovereignty and implement the plan to disarm Hezbollah," Macron stressed.

Earlier, Pakistani Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif said that the truce between the United States and Iran also applies to Lebanon. However, the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denied this statement. US President Donald Trump subsequently also said that Israel's strikes on Lebanon were a topic separate from the agreements with Iran.

Meanwhile, Iranian President Masoud Peseshkian, in a conversation with Sharif, said that the cessation of hostilities in Lebanon is part of the agreements with the United States, on the basis of which it is planned to end the conflict in the region.

In turn, US Vice President Jay Dee Vance explained to reporters on Thursday night that there had been a "misunderstanding" and "the Iranians believed that the cease-fire extended to Lebanon, but we never made such a promise."

"We talked about the ceasefire being focused on Iran and (...) America's allies are Israel and the Arab states of the Persian Gulf," Vance said.

The United States and Iran are expected to hold the first round of talks on April 10 in the Pakistani capital Islamabad.