The Council of Ministers in Baabda today .. Peace will only be accepted with a transparent mechanism for appointments

The attention is directed to the cabinet, which will be held today at the Baabda Palace, its first session, and on its agenda, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam presented it to implement the reform obligations, and the issue of the current year budget project set by the previous government, and the start of the appointments workshop that is of great importance, given that it will be under the scrutiny of the audit as the basic indicator of the government’s obligations and reformist standards.

The file of appointments will be partially present, by offering the appointment of an army commander from outside the agenda, provided that this appointment will be in the first position that is close to the President of the Republic with the first security appointments.
The information of “Lebanon 24” reported that extensive contacts took place before the cabinet session, especially with regard to the issue of security appointments, and the result of contacts was agreed to postpone them except for the army leadership and the State Security Directorate.
According to the information of “Lebanon 24”, Brigadier Rudolph Heikal will be appointed as the commander of the army, and Brigadier Edgar Londs is likely to be appointed as the general manager of state security.
Ministerial sources said that the government is facing a large group of difficult and thorny challenges and challenges, and the accumulated complex files require their approach according to the base of urgent priorities.
In response to a question, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said that he will only accept a transparent mechanism to choose the names that will be appointed in the departments, especially since their nature differs from military positions. In this context, he confirms that he will only accept “by appointing the best and most efficient in the departments, and applying this Muslim to all candidates.”
And it starts from a fixed that will work on it, “If we want to build effective and productive institutions, people from the sufficiency must be done.” This is what he stresses in choosing members of the organized bodies -in electricity, communications and aviation, given the importance of these sectors in the renaissance of the economy and providing the services required for citizens.
In a related context, informed sources said that President Aoun’s talks with Saudi officials, specifically with the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, were positive and preaching good, but the statements of Saudi officials bear multiple interpretations, but the closest interpretation of reality is to link the Saudis and support them with obligations for Lebanon to implement them related to the application of international decisions and the establishment of the state’s authority over its entire lands in addition to financial and economic reforms, which means that the Saudi openness means that the Saudi openness means that the Saudi openness means that the Saudi openness means The economist is linked to political and security files for a long time to implement
A member of the “Development and Liberation” bloc, MP Ali Hassan Khalil, affirmed the government’s commitment to its ministerial statement regarding the work of liberating the land. He believed that this requires first that there be a collective position, within the cabinet, on this responsibility and that the richness in the political difference, within the cabinet, does not turn into a division in the national vision.
He said: “We are clearly committed to the implementation of Resolution 1701 and whoever violates the agreement and all its attachments is Israel, whoever violates, assaulted, occupies, and strikes the international will is Israel.” He stressed the necessity of paying attention to this matter and that “we do not give Israel any pretext as a result of a political discourse that stems from narrow or class accounts.” He also stressed that the common language among all members of the government and its ministers must stem from the national commitment towards the responsibility of liberation by all means, as stated in the ministerial statement.
Khalil said that Lebanon is in a fateful stage in parallel with what is happening in all the region. This matter calls for a new approach to internal and external challenges first.