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At ten o’clock this afternoon in the Presidential Palace – Baabda, the Supreme Defense Council met at the invitation of the President of the Republic, General Michel Aoun, to present the developments in the state of general mobilization and other issues. The meeting was attended by Prime Minister Hassan Diab, Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Zeina Aker, and Finance Ministers Ghazi Wazni, Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Charbel Wahba, Interior and Municipalities, Muhammad Fahmy, Economy and Trade, Raoul Nehme, Judge Marie Claude Najm, Public Health Hamad Hassan, Energy and Water Raymond Ghajar, Public Works and Transportation Michel Najjar.
The Commander of the Armed Forces General Joseph Aoun, Director General of Public Security General of Division Abbas Ibrahim, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Defense General of Division Mahmoud Al-Asmar, Director General of the Internal Security Forces, General of Division Imad Othman , Director General of State Security, Division General Tony Saliba, Government Commissioner of the Military Court Judge Fadi Akiki, Health and Social Affairs Advisor to the President of the Republic Walid Khoury, Director General of the Presidency of the Republic Antoine Choucair, Security and Military Advisor to the President of the Republic, retired Brigadier General Paul Matar, Head of the Hospital Owners Union Suleiman Haroun, President of the Union of Doctors Dr. Sharaf Abu Sharaf, Union of Nurses Dr. Mirna Abi Abdullah Doumit, President of the Lebanese Red Cross, Dr. Antoine Zoghbi, Director of the “National Atomic Energy Authority”, Dr. Bilal Nsoul i, and the representative of the company “combilift”, Elias Aswad.
The meeting was preceded by a meeting with the President of the Republic and the Prime Minister, to discuss the developments.
President Aoun:
At the beginning of the meeting of the Supreme Defense Council, President Aoun highlighted the need to extend the general mobilization due to the increase in the number of wounded and deceased, and called for determining the current situation of wounded, dead and vaccines to face the expected third . wave of the Corona epidemic.
President Aoun announced the allocation of 50 per cent of the exceptional allocation to the President of the Republic of the 2021 budget, that is, 50 billion pounds, to be disbursed to those affected by the explosion of the port of Beirut, always to be distributed in accordance with the rules and in coordination with the leadership of the army and the Governor of Beirut.
President Diab:
President Diab pointed out at the beginning of the meeting of the Supreme Defense Council that “every day we see the suffering of the Lebanese people to obtain subsidized goods, while the treatment is with a financing card that provides families with direct support that cancels the support that reaches the people by dropper due to the greed of some merchants and the absence of human conscience ”.
He noted that “the spread of the Crown is increasing, and there is a high percentage of citizens who do not adhere to the procedures, while it seems that we are on the verge of the third wave, not only in Lebanon, but in the world, and may be more dangerous than its predecessors. “September”.
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