2023-07-16 04:16:34
“Lebanese Debate”
Unprecedented and unfamiliar messages at the diplomatic level were carried by the high-ceilinged positions launched by the French ambassador to Lebanon, Anne Griot, on the occasion of her country’s birthday, and on the most prominent occasion before leaving her post in Beirut at the end of this July. Ambassador Grio acknowledged that Lebanon is losing and that its current stability is “deceptive”, unofficial, and “feeds from the increasing consolidation of whitewashing and crime”, and spoke of “clientism”, corruption and “deadly paralysis” in Lebanon.
In a reading of the warnings and accusations of the French ambassador, the former Lebanese ambassador to Washington, Riad Tabbara, did not notice anything new other than what he described as the normal “dishonesty” of officials, while it excluded the army, the internal security forces and society, and thus leveled accusations once morest the government and parliament, as the government is unable to take action. The necessary economic decisions, while the House of Representatives does not legislate.
Ambassador Tabbara stopped, in an interview with “Lebanon Debate”, at two remarkable references in Ambassador Griot’s speech on the French National Day. The first is that the Lebanese economy is in danger following it has become an economy that allows money laundering because it is a “cash or cash economy”, meaning that money laundering is a matter. It is very dangerous because it exposes Lebanon to sanctions, and therefore “the destruction of the economy is the possibility of money laundering operations.”
As for the remarkable new sign, and the second according to Tabbara, it is the expected initiative through a five-year agreement of the active countries, which Iran may join, so that the five-plus-one agreement becomes one for the presidential file, and not a French initiative similar to President Emmanuel Macron’s previous presidential initiative.
Tabbara also talks regarding the intervention of the French ambassador in Lebanese affairs by saying, “Where would you be without the remittances of expatriates?” Knowing that in the history of Lebanon, the Lebanese emigrated and expatriated in order to work and transfer money to their families. She also said: “Where would you be if Did we not help you even if UNIFIL forces did not help you?”, which is a “beautiful and appropriate compliment.”
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