BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon's military will soon carry out “sensitive missions” and take necessary steps to ensure their success while preserving civil peace in the crisis-hit nation, the country’s army chief said Friday.

Gen. Rodolphe Haykal was apparently referring to the Lebanese government’s U.S.-backed plan to disarm the militant Hezbollah group by the end of the year as well as Palestinian weapons in the country’s refugee camps.

The Lebanese government asked the army in early August to prepare a plan to disarm Hezbollah by the end of the month and the Cabinet is scheduled to hold a meeting to discuss the plan Tuesday.

Hezbollah’s leadership has vowed not to disarm, saying the national government’s decision to remove the Iran-backed group’s weapons by the end of the year serves Is

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