Aoun Urges 'Uniting Efforts' to Enable Lebanon to 'Face Challenges'
President Michel Aoun has called on the various political parties to unite efforts in order to enable Lebanon to face the current challenges.
In a message marking the Muslim feast of Eid al-Adha, Aoun called for “being inspired by the meanings of Eid to put the country's higher interest ahead of temporal and partisan interests.”
The president warned that “the circumstances surrounding Lebanon and the region's countries call for uniting everyone's efforts to enable Lebanon to face the current challenges and cross the important junctures, topped by the formation of a new government.”
He added that the new government will be tasked with “completing the construction process and achieving the country's rise.”
PM-designate Saad Hariri was tasked with forming a new government on May 24. His mission is being hampered by political wrangling over shares, especially over Christian and Druze representation. Some parties such as Hizbullah and the Free Patriotic Movement have suggested that foreign countries, especially Saudi Arabia, are behind the ongoing delay.
Hariri has told reporters that the new government “will not be formed” should the pro-Damascus camp “insist on restoring Lebanese-Syrian ties.” But pro-Hizbullah journalist Salem Zahran said that the PM-designate has “informed Hizbullah” that his remarks were a “slip of the tongue.”
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