From Jordan, al-Rahi renews call for int'l conference for Lebanon
Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Wednesday noted that “Lebanon is suffering from the absence of an authority that can take decisive resolutions, which generated several authorities and influential figures.”
“It is bearing a major economic burden, its identity is threatened and its demography is changing due to the presence on its soil of half a million Palestinians and 1.5 million Syrians,” al-Rahi said during an ongoing visit to Jordan.
The patriarch also reiterated his call for “a U.N.-sponsored international conference that would tackle the implementation of the Taif Agreement in text and spirit and U.N. Security Council resolutions 1680, 1559 and 1701, in order to resolve the crisis of the displaced Syrians and the Palestinian cause and declare Lebanon’s neutrality.”
Source: Naharnet
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