Paris: French President Emmanuel Macron will host a new international conference in Lebanon next month on the first anniversary of Port Beirut’s explosion, after the Premier appointed Saad Hariri giving up trying to form a government, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced Friday.
Macron will regulate the conference on August 4 with the assistance of the United Nations, “to respond to the need for Lebanese whose situation worsens every day,” he said in a statement.
The French Leader in August 2020 held the first aid conference after the Beenut Port explosion which turned off August 4 which destroyed the capital of Lebanon, a rally around 250 million euros in an appointment.
But France and Macron repeatedly expressed despair for the failure of Lebanese leaders to end the political and economic crisis that came from the explosion.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the failure of Hariri to form a government “confirmed the political deadlock which intentionally Lebanese leaders continued for months, even when Lebanon sank in an unprecedented economic and social crisis.” It is said now that there is an “absolute urgency” to remove “intentional and unacceptable obstacles” and allow the formation of government in Lebanon and the rapid appointment of the prime minister.
Hariri said Thursday he could not form a government after a meeting with President Michel Aoun over the draft lineup of his cabinet.
Hariri has been nominated by the prime minister who was appointed in October 2020 after a devastating explosion in Beirut Port in August caused by unsafe fertilizers and which killed more than 200 people.