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Ghada Halawi wrote in “Nidaa Al Watan”:
As the French, through their representatives residing in Pine Palace or in France, continue to follow the government formation process, and detailed by President-designate Mustafa Adib in his negotiations with stakeholders, the United States Treasury announced new sanctions against President Nabih Berri’s political aide, representative Ali Hassan Khalil and the representative of the Marada Movement, the former minister. Youssef Fenianos. Berri grabbed the American ad telling Americans that “the message has arrived” and turns a new page in dealing with them.
The first steps in the response in terms of form came when he announced that the Speaker of the House of Representatives would receive his political assistant in Ain al-Tineh, who usually visits her more than once a day. If the objective of the sanctions was to exclude the political aide from his role as negotiator in the formation of the government, then they had a negative effect on Berri and within the “Amal” movement as well as among the allies, so that any activity carried out by Khalil He would occupy the leadership and continue his work as a negotiator in the government formation process.
The heavy sanctions came as a “joke”, and Berri took advantage of it on his way and addressed the Americans in the language of “they understood your dimensions and background.” These sanctions caused additional complications in the formation of the government. Two main streams were pointed out, one of them is the main one that represents Berri in the consultations. The President of Parliament considered it an attack on him. This was evident in the language of the communiqué issued by the “Amal” movement and the tone in which it was formulated, which clearly shows Berri’s touches and writing style, as well as the directions.
Intentionally linking the sanctions to the border demarcation record to reveal a US blackmail operation aimed at pushing Lebanon to make concessions. It should be noted that the reference to this matter was mentioned in the first clause of the Presidency’s response to the US sanctions, thus giving dimensions that point to the environment surrounding the resistance at the political level represented by the ally. The closest is Nabih Berri and “Hezbollah’s” historic Christian ally, Suleiman Franjieh. As for the third and most prominent dimension, it is at the moment of these sanctions and their coincidence with the French initiative. The aim was to cut him off so that his first hesitation was to complicate the government formation file and bring him back before the first square? Observers must not lose sight of the central role Berri played in uniting the Palestinians and his focus on a political settlement between the Palestinian Authority and Hamas. The last of them was his reception by the head of the “Hamas” political bureau Ismail Haniyeh at the beginning of his visit to Lebanon, which coincided with the activation of the normalization movement between Israel and some Arab countries under the auspices of the United States.
Despite all the uproar it caused, it was still unclear if the US sanctions were coordinated with the French or if they were a coup against their initiative. In both senses, it was treated as a clear American message: the Shiites cannot take over the Ministry of Finance and the Christian ally of “Hezbollah” can hand over the Ministry of Works (the port, the airport and the crossings). The sanctions can benefit the French by pushing to accelerate government formation and acting like a minesweeper to achieve this goal. But if it is the opposite, that is, an American movement without coordination with the French, then it is not ruled out that Hezbollah withdraws from the agreement on the grounds that the French could not stop the American pressure. at. Can consultations on the formation of a government be resumed without going through US sanctions, or will it be a direct reason for their freezing?
One possibility is possible, even if it has not been resolved, because it targeted a key negotiator, who is the representative of President Berri Ali Hassan Khalil. Basically, the complications of forming a government were many and many, and President-designate Mustafa Adib adhered to the circulation in the portfolios and a government of 14 ministers and took over the distribution of the bags as he saw fit, and then After the sanctions, the Shiite duo became more adherent to finance than before, and sources close to Berri confirm that the statement carried his claim not to follow the logic of pressure regardless of these pressures, and if “the intention was to change the position on the issue of government and demarcation or any other issue, then the spokesman Berri told them that he made a mistake in the title. That pressure will not lead to making concessions, neither in the demarcation nor in the government. We facilitated the government order, and in the place of demarcation, nothing was lacking except the announcement, but it was they who did not respond, “ruling out that the sanctions will affect the negotiations to form the government.” Its type. “
The pessimistic atmosphere was accompanied by an optimistic position that his peers say that the president-designate is advancing in the formation of his government regardless of the sanctions, while proceeding in accordance with the French council to form a government of non-partisan specialists and that the parties are obliged to facilitate their mission in this way and not be accused of obstruction, pending that Adeeb is brought to the President of the Republic. On your next visit during your government training hours, to discuss it. Such a conversation may be an avalanche of optimism in an atmosphere that suggested yesterday that the Diab government may be the last government of the era and that what is to come is greater, with the United States intent on issuing a new package of sanctions. .
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