President General Joseph Aoun received this afternoon at the Baabda Palace US Ambassador to Lebanon Michel Issa and members of the US Congress House Foreign Affairs and Armed Services committees. During the meeting, current conditions and recent developments were discussed, particularly the release of a batch of Lebanese detainees from Israeli prisons, in addition to ongoing preparations for the next round of Lebanese-American-Israeli negotiations. President Aoun thanked Ambassador Issa for the efforts he exerted to secure the release of a number of Lebanese detainees in Israel, stressing the need to work towards liberating the remaining detainees in accordance with what was agreed upon during the tripartite negotiations and as a follow-up to the framework agreement track. The discussion also touched upon the assistance provided by the United States of America to the Lebanese Army and the appropriations allocated for that purpose in the US Congress.