The former Lebanese Prime Minister, Fouad Siniora, and the former Jordanian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Marwan Muasher, stressed the need for Arabs to have a unified project in which they face regional and international challenges, and the immediate start of gradual internal reform at all levels, and frank treatment with people, because reform without Engaging and listening to it will increase suffering.
Siniora said, in the session of "political transformations in the Arab world" during the Arab Strategic Forum, which was moderated by the journalist Imad Al-Din Adeeb: "Reform in the Arab countries must be a reality, a will and perseverance, not a speech. Reform is achieved when the ruling regimes are capable of it, not He is forced to do it, because coercion will make the cost of reform high and painful for people. ”He added that the system that will remain and continue is the system that has the courage to openly speak to its people. On him, the "statesmen" who They persuade their people in the right ways.
He stressed that the regimes need to understand the mobility that is taking place on the internal scene, which leads to addressing problems, but that requires calming expectations and the need to achieve the demands of citizens away from sectarianism and fragmentation.
He added that there are good prospects for oil and gas in the eastern Mediterranean, but they remain prospects for Lebanon and Syria, and they are not certain reserves, and until they become reserves, they need decades of time, but more importantly, these countries do not fall into the mistakes of others when exploiting this wealth, in addition to the need not to become The economy of countries is rentier by extracting gas, as was the case with oil, because rentier economy does not create real jobs, nor strong production.
On the current Lebanese scene, Siniora affirmed that there is a complete recession among citizens in trust in the governments and the political community in which each team worked to enhance its influence at the expense of the country and citizens, so the national process lost the compass in accountability and accountability within Lebanon, and then the way out of all of this It is listening to citizens and adopting the constitution as an approach.
For his part, the former Jordanian foreign minister, Marwan Al-Muasher, stated: “The Arabs cannot remain surrender to blatant foreign interference, and they must take control of their own hands, and there must be a unified Arab project.” He added that the Arab world is between two things, either as a headache for change or Cancer of the current situation, and he must abandon the discussion of the alphabets that he still adheres to until now, despite the fact that the countries of the world have made great strides in development and progress.
Moasher stressed the need to adhere to the state of institutions with strong political will, and serious and gradual democratic reform in the Arab countries, in addition to the urgent need for a productive, not rentier, economy to create real job opportunities for citizens.
Fouad Siniora:
• "There is a complete decline in the Lebanese people's confidence in the governments."