Forensic audit … Aoun’s promise to the Lebanese

The President of the Republic, General Michel Aoun, sent a message to the Lebanese on Saturday night on the occasion of the seventy-seventh anniversary of independence, through the audiovisual media, after the celebration was canceled due to the pandemic of Corona, saying: “Unfortunately, it was full of crises and adversities of various kinds that negatively affected the lives of all Lebanese. Whether it is with a livelihood, harvesting a lifetime or the future of their children, some of them have suffered more, losing loved ones in the worst disaster that hit the heart of our capital, or due to an epidemic that has invaded the world. and continues to reap victims.

And he added: “Our reality today is not promising, but realizing reality does not mean accepting it and surrendering to it, because we are a people that rose up against the resistance to seize their right to exist and life.

Aoun continued: “I keep my promise to dig the rocks, no matter how difficult, to pave the way to the salvation of the country.”

He added that “Lebanon reports the regrettable decision of the forensic auditing firm” Alvarez y Marsal “to withdraw from the mission entrusted to it, because the Banque du Liban did not provide it with the information and documents it requires.

Aoun considered that the “withdrawal” of Álvarez and Marsal from the task that was entrusted to him is a regression to the logic of the establishment of the State, disclosure, accountability, accountability and transparency. The criminal audit is the entry point of any reform.

Aoun pointed out that “our country is captive to a system that prohibits accountability through solidarity and solidarity, and ensures the pretexts and innovations necessary to circumvent laws and obstruct their implementation. Our country is a prisoner of a rentier economy. that it has killed its production and has gone into debt and forcibly placed in the category of dependency to meet its needs and the dependence of creditors in the shack of justice. ” Our country is in prison. And with the dominance of the powerful, our country is a prisoner of malicious and obstructive policies that impede any progress or achievement. Our country is a prisoner of hatred and satanic incitement that almost turns its youth into “enemy brothers, our homeland a prisoner of dictates, external disputes and internal hostilities that make independence, sovereignty and democracy empty words.”

He said: “Oh Lebanese, there are many restrictions that bind, but breaking them is not impossible if we really want to build the nation and achieve liberation and real independence. I tell you, on the basis of the necessary frankness: reform and establishment of the state they are subject to your will, so express them. “

Aoun believed that “there is no establishment of a capable and effective state in light of corruption, and the beginning is with the criminal financial investigation, then the approval of bills for reform, accountability and financial regularity. in the House of Representatives, particularly the recovery of looted funds, the financial crimes court and the automatic investigation of the financial assets of those in a public service. “

He said: “Three and a half months have passed since the Beirut port explosion disaster, and Lebanon and the world are still awaiting the results of the investigation, and with our full respect for the confidentiality of the investigation imposed by law and the independence of the judiciary, I, from my position, ask that it be accelerated without haste “.

He continued: “The Lebanese, especially those directly affected by the port explosion disaster, including the injured and the families of the victims or those who have rights, have the right to know the results, first to clarify the truth and incriminate the guilty and absolve the aggrieved, and secondly to release the rights of those affected. On administrative responsibilities “.

He explained: “In the midst of the challenges that surround our homeland, it must be emphasized that Lebanon adheres to its full sovereign borders, and hopes that the negotiations to demarcate the southern maritime borders will bear fruit, so that it regains its full rights based In international conventions and correct the Blue Line until land borders are drawn, set and recognized. Internationally. “

Aoun stressed that “what draws attention to the radical political transformations that are taking place at the international and regional level is the recognition of Israel by several Arab countries and its path towards full normalization with it, and in that, unfortunately, an implicit acceptance of the loss of Jerusalem and the Golan Heights, as well as increased US pressure before the new government takes office, Russia will also return to the file for displaced persons. “