The French president has opened this Sunday, a video conferencing international support five days after the massive explosion in Beirut.
Emmanuel Macron has introduced, since its summer residence of Bregancon, to Borme-les-Mimosas, video conferencing-international support to Lebanon co-hosted by the UN and France, that brings together a dozen leaders, including the American Donald Trump, to be “to the sides of Beirut and of the lebanese people,” who “weeps for the dead, expresses his anger and wants to take up the head” after the explosion which damaged a part of the lebanese capital Tuesday.
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The French president Emmanuel Macron has called to “act quickly and with effectiveness,” aid “goes directly” to the lebanese population. The head of State has also called on the lebanese authorities to “act to ensure that the country does dark not and to meet the aspirations that the lebanese people express in this moment-even legitimately in the streets of Beirut. We must all together do everything to ensure that neither the violence nor the chaos could not prevail”.
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“today, however, those who have an interest in this division and chaos, are the powers that would in any way harm the lebanese people”, he added without naming names. “Even at this time, (…) it is the future of Lebanon that is played”, he believed, calling back to “an impartial, credible, independent on the causes of the disaster in the 4 August”.
This last “rang like a clap of thunder. The time of the alarm and the action is now. The lebanese authorities must now put in place political and economic reforms requested by the lebanese people, and which alone will enable the international community to act effectively on the side of Lebanon for the reconstruction”, he added. The French president insisted on the necessity of”unity” of the international community despite “the geopolitical conditions around Lebanon. He said to expect that Turkey, which “has not been able to join the video conferencing”, and the Russian federation lend their support, even as Israel, which “has expressed his desire to bring assistance”.
Disaster too
The devastation caused by the explosion, apparently caused by the storage of thousands of tons of ammonium nitrate in a filing to the port of Beirut, is the disaster of too much for the Lebanese. Lebanon is immersed for months in a very serious economic crisis, marked by an impairment loss unique of its currency, hyperinflation, massive layoffs, and banking restrictions drastic.
Saturday, thousands of protesters marched in the city centre of Beirut. Led by officers to the retreat, protesters stormed the headquarters of the ministry of foreign Affairs, proclaiming “headquarters of the Revolution”.
For the French presidency, the events “testify to the exasperation of the distress of the population, the need things to change”. “Lebanon is in the process of sinking, we think it has hit bottom, and therefore this is the time to rise to the surface”, has yet commented on the entourage of Emmanuel Macron, recalling that the French president has promised, during his visit Thursday that the aid would not be “corruption”.
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The lebanese president, Michel Aoun, rejected on Friday any international investigation into the huge explosion, claiming that it could have been caused by negligence or by a missile. Paris, however, felt that there was “enough objective evidence to suggest that the explosion was accidental.”
While in the lebanese capital, rescue workers were active always to find survivors, international aid continues to flow. As soon as the announcement of the explosion, several countries, particularly France, have sent relief personnel and material aid. Egypt and Qatar are going to open field hospitals and the world Health Organization (WHO).
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Double explosion in Beirut
New calls to protest in Beirut, the first resignation of a minister The explosion in Beirut has dug a crater from 43 metres depth In Beirut, angry demonstrators to occupy government ministries
Recent initiatives, up-to-date the canadian government on Saturday announced the launch of a relief fund for Lebanon and called on Canadians ‘ generosity. France has put in place an air and sea bridge to carry more than 18 tons of medical aid and nearly 700 tonnes of food aid. A cargo plane left on Saturday, two more were en route Sunday.
