Review the ministerial statement today

“Al -Nahar” stated that the Ministerial Drafting Committee is moving quickly towards completing its mission. The committee discusses a draft statement established by Prime Minister Nawaf Salam, and the other components of the government are being mixed and includes everything related to the government’s directions towards the sovereign, security, economic and social challenges in accordance with the reformist standards set by the Covenant and the Prime Minister. And it has become in the verdict that the statement will not include the phrase “resistance” or the old “triple”, but rather it will depend on paragraph 51 of the United Nations Charter that deals with “the natural right of countries to defend themselves if an armed force assaulted one of the members of the United Nations …”, In addition to the paragraphs of the department’s speech by the President of the Republic, General Joseph Aoun, on the exclusive weapon in the hands of the state and its security institutions. The statement will also include, according to the expected, to focus on Lebanon’s commitment to extending the state’s sovereignty over its entire lands in accordance with the Taif Agreement, the Constitution and International Decisions, especially Resolution 1701. The statement will include the file of strengthening security on the Lebanese -Syrian border and stressing the need to coordinate with the Lebanese army to put an end to smuggling activities and armed activities. The file of financial and economic reforms will also take a great space in the statement, especially in terms of structural reforms in the banking system, which will be the basis for a fair solution to the issue of deposits and depositors after President Salam decided in his television interview last Tuesday evening all intimidation by removing deposits and drawing the full road map of the government’s reform path.

The brigade stated that the draft may be accomplished today, Thursday, and if it ends on Saturday or Monday, the President of the Republic to make notes on it, then submit to the Council of Ministers to study it, amend, add, or delete what is required and approved to be presented to a plenary session to the House of Representatives at the closest opportunity to vote On trust.

Ministerial sources pointed out to Al -Banaa that the revised version of the ministerial statement will end within two days and be at the Cabinet table for discussion and approval, and then the government went to seek confidence from the House of Representatives, provided that the Speaker of the Council, Nabih Berri, determines a session dedicated to discussing the ministerial statement and granting the government confidence at the beginning of the week Next. The sources expected that the government will gain confidence in a majority of a balanced majority that enables it to start to work and achieve a great push.

According to the sources, there is no problem in the statement that will be consistent with the new stage and in accordance with the priorities of the government and the citizen from protecting sovereignty, borders and withdrawing from the entire Lebanese territories and reconstruction and the completion of appointments in security, military, administrative and judicial sites, some necessary reforms and completing negotiation with the International Monetary Fund, and conducting municipal and optional elections And the representative after making some amendments to the election law. The sources pointed out that the paragraph concerned with the issue of land liberalization and the protection of Lebanon and the weapon of the resistance, there is no dispute over it as well. The statement will be based on this matter specifically on the speech of the division first, the National Accord Document and the Taif Agreement secondly, as the Prime Minister said in his interview yesterday, and from the United Nations Charter and International Decisions.