The european institutions will also participate in the donors ‘ conference to mobilize emergency humanitarian assistance for the population of Beirut.
The video conference of donors in support of Lebanon, whose capital Beirut has been devastated by an explosion of deadly, will take place on Sunday at 14 hours, co-organized by the united nations and France, said the Elysée.
Saturday morning, Donald Trump had tweeted that the video conference would bring together “the president Macron, the leaders of Lebanon and the leaders of other places in the world”, after the visit of the French president on Thursday in Beirut. “Everyone wants to help!” he added, mentioning having spoken in the morning with the president of france Emmanuel Macron, at the initiative of the meeting.
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The european institutions will also participate in the donors ‘ conference to mobilize emergency humanitarian assistance for the population of Beirut.
money “will not go to corruption,”
During his visit on Thursday, Emmanuel Macron had promised the Lebanese people that the money would not be “corruption”. The assistance must include the needs for food and infrastructure, according to a diplomatic source.
The lebanese president, Michel Aoun, for his part, rejected on Friday any international inquiry on the massive explosion at the port of Beirut, asserting that it could have been caused by negligence or by a missile, while the rescuers were active still to find survivors.
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Double explosion in Beirut
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on Tuesday, a fire in a warehouse where were stored for six years 2.700 tonnes of ammonium nitrate in the port of Beirut has caused an enormous fire blast that has killed at least 154 people dead, over 5,000 injured, dozens missing and hundreds of thousands homeless, according to the latest balance sheet.
