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Asharq Al-Awsat learned from political sources that Macron decided to send Dorrell to Beirut in light of the data he had, through his daily monitoring of ongoing consultations to form the government, especially between Aoun and Hariri, which reached a dead end in order to investigate the reasons behind the delay in the birth of the government as well as what was committed by all parties, either in terms of their blank support for the roadmap, which came as a culmination of the Macron’s talks with the three presidents and his meetings with the main political components of the “Pine Palace”. He noted that Macron’s political concerns did not prevent him from accompanying him daily with consultations on the formation of the government through open contacts that Dorrell makes everywhere before landing in Beirut to restart the consultations and remove them from the impasse that closed the door before the search for exits to revive the French initiative. Which has become the only way to save Lebanon.
He confirmed that Dorrell, who left Beirut yesterday to return to Paris to present his report to Macron, managed to secure contact between Hariri and the head of the “Free Patriotic Movement”, MP Gebran Bassil, who initiated contact with him after Dorrell spoke to Hariri, and he said that the contact continued for seconds without ever. It has consequences that can help accelerate the formation of government, to the extent that it implies that the problem between them is political and not personal.
The same sources revealed that the desire of the political forces to renew their commitment to Dorrell with the French initiative did not obscure the attempt of each party to take responsibility for the other by hindering its translation into tangible steps to form an important government, although the majority of they wink from Aoun’s channel and through him Basil that it is they who delay the birth of the government. In light of the president’s insistence that Hariri start negotiations with Bassil, despite the latter claiming that he supports without hesitation what Aoun and Hariri agree to.
He saw that most of the parties had a responsibility to delay Aoun and Bassil, and recorded his bias towards Hariri’s point of view, who insists on consulting with Aoun, who is not supposed to allow another partner to enter these. queries. She said Dorrell did not support Aoun’s view, telling him that the sanctions imposed by the United States on Bassil had obstructed the task of forming the government. He confirmed that Dorrell touched on the sanctions on the sidelines of some of their meetings, and said that some of those he met raised this issue and his response was that Paris is not interested and that what he is concerned about is neutralizing the formation of the government from him, and therefore there is no justification for the correlation between them. She denied reports that Dorrell came to Beirut with the big club in hand to intimidate him by imposing sanctions on those who impeded the birth of the government and quoted the French delegate as saying that Macron did not use in Beirut suggesting an intention to impose sanctions on those who hinder his training, but hinted that he will have another action. Regarding those who put obstacles in the way to save Lebanon.
In this context, the sources quoted Dorrell as saying that the Lebanese must help themselves as a condition for seeking financial and economic help from others, and that they must fulfill everything they promised to reach the International Conference in Support of Lebanon, to that it does not become a conference to provide humanitarian aid to the Lebanese.
And while Dorrell avoided going into detail about what he had heard from the parties he met with, Asharq Al-Awsat learned that he was avoiding expressing his opinion whether he was pessimistic or optimistic about the formation of the government, leaving the final ruling to the next days in light of everyone’s commitment to speed up the formation of the government, because I could go into detail. Drag you into traps you don’t want and give others an excuse to back down from their ventures.
He revealed that Dorrell did not come to Beirut in an attempt to form a government at any cost, even if it contradicts the political specifications that Macron included in his initiative, and said that Paris maintains its position by forming a government of independent and specialists, not affiliated with parties and enjoying of competence and integrity, and these are a trusted source for the Lebanese. And they respond to their aspirations for change by implementing the reforms required by the government. Therefore, it can be said that the formation of the government is now entering a stage that is supposed to be decisive in determining the fate of the consultations, despite the fact that Paris gave interested parties at its birth several days to test the scope of their commitment to their promises so that they can build on what is required, and this requires anticipation to ensure the possibility of resuming Authorship Consultations between Aoun and Hariri, although Dorrell did not address the number of its members, nor the names and distribution of suitcases, although the majority of the parties with whom he met held Aoun and Bassil responsible for the delay.
