The French Head of State does not exclude organizing a regional conference to help the country of Cedar to get out of the dead end.
by Philippe Ricard
Emmanuel Macron has not lost all hope of helping to overcome the politico-financial crisis in which Lebanon is driven. After various attempts that have remained without great effects to date, he intends to resume the initiative on this subject. “The problem of Lebanon is to solve people’s problems and clear those who do not know how to do it,” he said when he returned from Jordan in an interview with the world, to the Wall Street Journal and on a daily basis Lebanese An-Nahar, Wednesday December 21. “The strategy is that it takes honest people, ready to say:” We disinterested the clans and they stop living on the back of the beast “. We must change the leadership of this country” -I pursued.
The head of state had first imagined going to Lebanon to French soldiers from the UN temporary force in Lebanon, to celebrate Christmas, but he preferred to do it on board the aircraft carrier Charles-de-Gaulle, deployed off Egypt, in the Red Sea. “The Lebanese non-decision situation also means that it is not the best time to go and the role of France is not to replace the Lebanese political forces”, he justifies, while The blocking persists to elect a new president to replace General Michel Aoun. “What interests me are the Lebanese and the Lebanese. Not those who live on their backs. The question is: is the caste that lives on Lebanon has the courage to change?” he, by suggesting that the answer is negative.
“Lebanon is dear to me”
The French president does not want to abandon the country, however, to his sad fate. “Lebanon is dear to me,” he said. We will work hard in the coming weeks. “The task promises to be arduous again, Emmanuel Macron promising” to try to bring out a plan, D ‘Help Prime Minister Najib Mikati who still tries to do the maximum of what he can do, not to give in to those who have been enriched in recent years and who would like to stay and who are blackmailing, and that we has an honest President and Prime Minister “.
“Unfortunately, he adds, I see a lot of young people leaving, sad, discouraged. I would dream that they can do it, my answer so is to try to help the emergence of a solution alternative policy but by doing concrete projects. “
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