Yesterday, the Lebanese Presidency, through its Twitter account, said that the President and Prime Minister signed a decree accepting the resignation of Foreign Minister Nassif until yesterday, and a decree appointing Charbel Wahba to the post.
Wahba is the diplomatic adviser to President Michel Aoun. The Cabinet Secretary-General read the decrees later, and local media reported the event.
The Lebanese Foreign Minister, Nassif Hatti, submitted his resignation from the government to Prime Minister Hassan Diab yesterday, in protest against the government performance in more than one vital file.
The resigned foreign minister attributed the reasons for his resignation, in an official statement, to the inability to perform his duties in these historical and fateful circumstances that Lebanon is passing through, which is slipping into becoming a failed state, as he described it.
The statement added: “In the absence of a vision for Lebanon, in which I believe in a free, independent, active and radiant nation in its Arab environment and in the world, and in the absence of an effective will to achieve the required comprehensive structural reform that our national community demands and invites us to do, I decided to resign from my duties as Minister of Foreign Affairs ».
He even demanded, in his resignation statement, to "reconsider many policies and practices, in order to give priority to the citizen and the country over all considerations, discrepancies, divisions, and specifics."
Reports stated that the reasons for the resignation related to his exclusion from the meetings that took place with his French counterpart, Jean-Yves Le Drian, who recently visited Beirut, but he even denied this in his statement by saying that “some interpretations and analyzes were transmitted, as well as some simplistic and superficial explanations through some media that Only the owners are required, all of which are matters that I did not stop throughout my professional life ».
• Even asserting that Lebanon is slipping into a "failed state".