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The formation of the government is important, but the base begins with the border demarcation and the work program with the International Monetary Fund.
The formation of the government is important, but the base begins with the border demarcation, and from the work program with the International Monetary Fund, which will not be completed with the formation of a single government, but with clear features of the Lebanese, maritime borders and terrestrial. These are the limits of the four Lebanese winds that have controlled US Under Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs David Schenker’s tours of Lebanon for the past two days. He visited figures who could assume leadership roles in the future, including the head of the “Marada” movement, Suleiman Franjieh, to learn their positions on all developments in the region and its future, in light of the border demarcation negotiations.
How?
The region, with its economic, political and security reality, has been in the making for decades, while Lebanon, with its ruling class and its rising street, is out of any integrated vision of the way and the limits of facing the future.
What would conditions be like if the border negotiations in the south were prolonged? Is there any possibility of imposing a Lebanese obstruction on energy projects in the region? What is the future and the limits of Lebanese interaction with the Gulf in Lebanon, on a tourist, popular and investment level, when the effects of the Gulf-Israeli normalization begin to appear throughout the region? What about the conditions and the future of the Lebanese working in the Gulf states, in that case?
These are all questions about how to draw the street of the October 17 uprising and the authority in its two parts, the “sovereign” and the “referee” together. And whoever can count on forming a new government exclusively, or even only by French initiative, must stop long before the sword that hangs in the office of the President of the Republic (Michel Aoun), and the American clarification that was issued on the conversation between Schenker and Aoun yesterday. On transparency and anti-corruption.
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Former MP Imad al-Hout said: “The popular uprising on October 17 succeeded in overthrowing two governments and imposed reforms and the fight against corruption at the table of political debate in the country.”
In an interview with the “Akhbar Al-Youm” agency, he considered that “achieving the rest of the objectives of the popular movement requires more time, movements and sacrifices, due to the presence of parties rooted in the State, and it is not easy to evict them from their positions except over time. ”
Standardization
On the areas of future popular interaction, not only political, with the variables of “normalization” of the region, at the level of tourism and investment from the Gulf in Lebanon, and the consequences of this for the Lebanese who work in the countries of the Gulf that normalize its relations with Israel, Al-Hout said: “Lebanon’s principled position rejects normalization. It is clear, and its position in the Arab-Zionist conflict is also fixed.”
He added that “the expression of rejection of normalization can be given openly, supported by the conflict between the peoples and regimes of the countries of the region that have rushed towards it (normalization).”
He explained: “For example, Egypt signed a peace treaty with the Israeli enemy in 1979, but the Egyptian regime was unable to impose it on its people. This gives Lebanon a space to express its rejection of normalization, without prejudice to interests. of the Lebanese who reside in the Gulf and work there. ”
Schenker
On Schenker’s tour, especially his visit to Franjieh, and the southern demarcation and its horizons between Lebanon, Syria, Iran and Israel, Al-Hout replied: “Schenker Franjieh’s visit can be framed in the Christian-Christian“ Zakat ”of Americans, and send a message to the president and his son-in-law (former minister Gebran Bassil. On that, Washington has alternative options in the Christian arena and in the arena of presidential nominations.
He continued: “The framework agreement on border demarcation came at a time of pressure and sanctions and their effects. However, border demarcation now constitutes an economic necessity for Lebanon, and at the level of oil and gas extraction, provided there are no signs of normalization or recognition of the Zionist enemy. “
He concluded: “Lebanon’s exclusive economic zone is outside the Iranian sphere of influence, and there is almost a Lebanese consensus on the way it is managed. Regarding land borders, as well as the demarcation of the borders. maritime, we must also draw all land borders, not just south, but with Syria as well. “
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