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The French ambassador Jean-Yves Le Drian left Beirut on Thursday with out giving up his efforts to influence the political forces to conform to elect the president of the republic, whereas the nation has been delivering a vicious circle because the publish turned vacant for a yr and a half. in the past.
A French diplomatic supply advised Agence France-Presse that Le Drian, who met with Lebanon’s important political forces, together with Hezbollah, the nation’s most outstanding political power, didn’t make “any main breach” within the file. presidents.
The supply, who most well-liked to stay nameless, stated that “each staff is sticking to their positions,” which led Le Drian to warn the officers he met that “political life Lebanon itself in peril,” because the division within the nation continues.
Since former President Michel Aoun’s time period ended on the finish of October 2022, Parliament has failed 12 occasions to elect a president, as no occasion has a transparent majority in Parliament that might enable him to. to appoint their candidate, attributable to an more and more tough disaster. political division between Hezbollah and its allies on the one hand, and their opponents Alternatively.
The cross-border escalation between Hezbollah and Israel, which has continued because the begin of the warfare in Gaza between the Israeli state and Hamas on October 7, is intensifying the political division, whereas the nation is already flare within the financial disaster that has been occurring. for years.
Hezbollah, which is supported by Tehran and has a big arsenal, is linking as much as cease concentrating on Israel with the latter ending the warfare in Gaza.
Throughout his conferences in Beirut, Le Drian warned of “the risks of increasing the disaster” amid the tense regional context. He pressured “the pressing must elect the president of the republic immediately,” in response to the diplomatic supply.
The go to of the French ambassador to Beirut got here inside the framework of “preparation for the go to of US President Joe Biden to France, when the 2 events might talk about the Lebanese file. ”
Biden is predicted to go to France on June 6 throughout the eightieth anniversary of the Normandy landings.
The worldwide efforts in the direction of Lebanon and people made by Le Drian to this point have ended, and the presidential emptiness from 2022 makes the financial disaster unprecedented. by no means worse.
The 5 nations following the Lebanese file, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, France, the USA and Qatar, referred to as a joint assertion signed by their ambassadors in Lebanon on Might 16 for “consultations, restricted in scope and distance, between the political blocs. ,” which they stated was “crucial to finish the present political stalemate.”
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2024-05-30 12:05:24
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