The new Lebanon Prime Minister on Saturday was the first full -fledged government of the country since 2022.
President Joseph Aoun announced in a statement that he had accepted the resignation of the former caretaker government and signed a decree with the new Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, who formed the new government.
Salam swores “to restore trust between the citizens and the state, between Lebanon and its Arabian environment as well as between Lebanon and the international community” and to implement reforms that are necessary to get the country out of a longer economic crisis.
“Reform is the only way to a real redemption,” he said in a speech on Saturday.
He also promised to pursue the implementation of an armistice agreement that ended the recent war between Israel and the Lebanese militant group and the Hisbollah of the political party at the end of November and ensure that the Israeli armed forces “withdraw from the Lebanese territory”.
He promised to ensure the reconstruction in areas that suffered destruction during the war.
Salam’s cabinet of 24 ministers, evenly divided into the Christian and Muslim sects, was founded less than a month after his appointment and comes at a time when the Lebanon tries to rebuild its smashed southern region and the security along its borders preserve.
Economic crisis in the 6th year
The Lebanon is still in a crippled economic crisis, which has now hit its banks in the sixth year, destroyed its state electricity sector and many in poverty were unable to access their savings.
Salam, a diplomat and former president of the International Justice Court, has sworn to reform the Lebanese judiciary and the economy that has been beaten and has been causing a stability of the restless country for decades, which is exposed to numerous economic, political, political and security crises.
Although the Hisbollah Salam did not support the Prime Minister, the Lebanese group negotiated with the new prime minister about the Shiite Muslim seats in the government, according to the Lebanese system of the mutification.
Despite the comments of the US sent Morgan Ortagus, who said in a speech in Beirut on Friday that Washington had “set clear red lines from the United States” that the Hisbollah would not be “part of the government”. The comments left many in Lebanon against the counter reaction, which they regarded as interference in internal Lebanese matters.
Deviate from the Hisbollah
The new authorities in Lebanon also mark a departure of leaders who are close to the Hisbollah, since Beirut hopes to further improve relationships with Saudi Arabia and other golf nations that have grown with the growing political and military power in the past ten years Hisbollah deal.
At the beginning of January, former army chief Aoun was elected president and ended the vacuum of this position. He was also a candidate who was not supported by the Hisbollah and the key allies.
Aoun has communicated similar feelings to Salam, which also promises to consolidate the state’s right to “monopolize weapons” in an obvious reference to the arms of the Hezbollah.
In a speech on Saturday, Salam said that Lebanon would implement the UN resolution 1701, which ended an earlier war between the Hisbollah and Israel in 2006.
