US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is expected to join a second round of direct talks between Israel and Lebanon this Thursday at the State Department, according to a State Department official, NBC News reports.

The discussions follow last Tuesday’s historic meeting between Israeli Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter and Lebanese Ambassador to the US Nada Hamadeh, attended by Rubio.

That meeting was the first direct negotiations between the two countries in decades and resulted in the agreement of a fragile 10-day ceasefire.