BEIRUT – Assistant Arab League (AL) Secretary General Hossam Zaki has urged Lebanese leaders to place their country’s higher interest above all narrow partisan and sectarian considerations.
The leaders of Lebanon must fill the political vacuum by forming a technocratic government of experts in a way that conforms to the French rescue initiative and would be able to help the Lebanese people escape their crises, he told Lebanese news network MTV on Monday.
Ambassador Zaki said an Arab League delegation will visit Lebanon soon to meet several officials as well as Maronite Patriarch Cardinal Bichara al Raii as part of the pan-Arab body’s efforts to help and support Lebanon.
On the political crisis in Lebanon, he said there was a genuine problem between two parties whose goals do not conform.
Rather, the main goal is to produce a government that will help the Lebanese people – and not just end the current fix – a government that will be able to implement the French initiative, he added.
“We, as the Arab League have the ability to garner the needed Arab support to help Lebanon, but we also need an official Lebanese administration that is ready to place the country’s higher interest above all narrow partisan and sectarian considerations,” he told the news network.
