Mikati urges Arabs to help Lebanese engage in dialogue
Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati on Saturday lamented that the Lebanese “have not helped each other.”
“We need dialogue … and had the Lebanese helped each other, they would have been able to pick a president,” Mikati said in an interview with the Al-Arabiya and the Al-Hadath TV networks following his participation in the Jeddah Arab Summit.
“I call on the Arab brothers to help Lebanon establish domestic dialogue … and Lebanon needs economic support from its Arab brothers,” Mikati added.
“If Lebanon had a president, its situation would have been much better,” the premier said.
He added: “We don’t need a new Taif (Accord), we need to continue the implementation of the ‘old Taif’. Lebanon has been and is still ill and it needs the Arab brothers to recover.”
Mikati also pointed out that “any political agreement in the region will necessarily reflect on Lebanon.”
21 May 2023, 10:55
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I urged my next door neighbor to help me and my wife engage in dialogue to reach consensus on naming our first child. She wants to call him Hassan and I want to call him Rambo.
23 May 2023, 18:44
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Mikati must assume that his audience doesn't know what the Taif Accord is. If he were a good Lebanese Christian he'd know it must never be mentioned. Nor Article 24 of the Constitution which is based on it.
