Rahi: International Conference Calls Meant to Face Coup Situation

by Naharnet Newsdesk 27 February 2021, 16:19

Maronite Patriarch Beshara el-Rahi said Saturday that his calls for a UN-sponsored international conference for Lebanon are meant to face a "coup situation" in the country.

"Our calls for a UN-sponsored international conference are to face a coup situation. Leaving the situation as it is while the state collapses and people get devastated is completely unacceptable for us," said Rahi addressing crowds of Lebanese who came to Bkirki to support his calls.

"No two can disagree that failure to abide by neutrality involves us in problems. The independent Lebanese entity is based on neutrality," he added.

On the outcome required from an international conference, Rahi said: "What do we want from an international conference? We want it to stabilize the Lebanese entity which is seriously endangered. We want it to support the democratic system, freedom and justice. We want it to announce Lebanon's neutralization. We want it to take all measures needed to implement all international decisions for Lebanon to save Lebanon's sovereignty and allow the Lebanese state to spread its authority on all Lebanese regions. We want it to support the Lebanese army to make it capable of solely defending the country."

The Patriarch also voiced rejection of any attempt to naturalize Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, pushing for the return of Syrian refugees back home.

"We want the international conference to set a clear plan preventing the naturalization of Palestinians, and to return the Syrian refugees back home," he said.

With enthusiasm, the crowds cheered as Rahi's word echoed.

He urged the Lebanese to seek their rightful rights to live in dignity.

"No right shall be wasted. I understand your pain and anger well. I understand your revolt. Do not stay silent about politicizing the judiciary. Do not stay silent about illegal arms. Do not stay silent about innocents kept in prisons, or the naturalization of Palestinians. Do not stay silent about the coup against the state and system. Do not stay silent about the delayed government formation, or about reforms or our martyrs. Do not stay silent about illegal arms."

"We liberated the land, so let us liberate the state from everything that hinders its authority and its performance. The greatness of the liberation and resistance movements in the world fall in the interest of the state and its legitimacy," he concluded.

Timeline

27 February 2021, 17:01
Rahi: We liberated the land, so let us liberate the state from everything that hinders its authority and its performance. The greatness of the liberation and resistance movements in the world fall in the interest of the state and its legitimacy.
27 February 2021, 16:58
Rahi: The Patriarch does not differentiate between the Lebanese.
27 February 2021, 16:54
Rahi: No right shall be wasted. I understand your pain and anger well. I understand your revolt. Do not keep silent about politicizing the judiciary. Do not keep silent about illegal arms. do not keep silent about innocents kept in prisons, or the naturalization of Palestinians. Do not keep silent about the coup against the state and system. Do not keep silent about the delayed government formation, or about reforms or our martyrs.
27 February 2021, 16:50
Rahi: You are the future of Lebanon and Lebanon is your future. Lebanon is for everyone and everyone if for Lebanon.
27 February 2021, 16:48
Rahi: In this edifice, the Christian and Muslim leaders tasked Patriarch Howayek in Versailles in 1919 to speak on behalf of the Lebanese demanding the State of Greater Lebanon.
27 February 2021, 16:46
Rahi: A respectful state does not accept to have armies other than its own.
27 February 2021, 16:43
Rahi: My calls are meant to renew our presence and to revive the scattered and obstructed Lebanese state.
27 February 2021, 16:40
Rahi: We have the right to live in dignity in our own country.
27 February 2021, 16:38
Rahi: We want the international conference to set a clear plan preventing the naturalization of Palestinians, and to return the Syrian refugees back home.
27 February 2021, 16:36
Rahi: What do we want from an international conference? We want it to stabilize the Lebanese entity which is seriously endangered. We want it to support the democratic system, freedom and justice. We want it to announce Lebanon's neutralization. We want it to take all measures needed to implement all international decisions for Lebanon to save Lebanon's sovereignty and allow the Lebanese state to spread its authority on all Lebanese regions. We want it to support the Lebanese army to make it capable of solely defending the country.
27 February 2021, 16:33
Rahi: Our calls for a UN-sponsored international conference are to face a coup situation.
27 February 2021, 16:32
Rahi: Leaving the situation as it is while the state collapses and people devastated is completely unacceptable for us.
27 February 2021, 16:31
Rahi: You are all here to back the call to internationalize Lebanon. All other suggestions to solve the problem went in vain.
27 February 2021, 16:30
Rahi: We renew our calls for Lebanon's neutrality.
27 February 2021, 16:28
Rahi: No two can disagree that failure to abide by neutrality involves us in problems. The independent Lebanese entity is based on neutrality.
27 February 2021, 16:25
Rahi: May god almighty protect everyone from coronavirus, and let us stand in silence to mourn all those who died of the virus and of the Beirut port explosion.
27 February 2021, 16:24
Rahi: Long live Lebanon the strong. Beloved you came to Bkirki from all over Lebanon despite the threat of coronavirus to support the calls for UN-sponsored international conference and neutralizing Lebanon. You are here to demand that Lebanon be saved and we shall all save Lebanon together.

SourceNaharnet

Lebanon

Comments 4

thepatriot 27 February 2021, 17:19

Personally I miss Cardinal Sfeir.
Like i.report, I don’t trust Rahi... but his speech is good.

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kazan 27 February 2021, 17:41

I expect some sort of agreement will be reached, and a government will be formed, the tension will diminish for a moment, but sooner or later people will find out that nothing has changed, the feudal / religious system remained as it is, The miniature kings of Lebanon are untouchable.

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formerlebaniz 28 February 2021, 08:29

You people are so pathetic focus on the message stop targeting the person, if you don’t like him that fine, I personally don’t like religious people, but he’s the only figure head in Lebanon willing to say what it is. Lebanon is ruled by Hizbullah and all the politicians there are nothing but clowns pretending to govern when in fact the only governing body is hizbullah. Until that is realized and you either have them run the country and stop the pretending or you rise up against them, but this on going BS is what hizbullah wants because it benefits them not being considered the governing body by the outside.

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