US Assistant Secretary of State David Hale said that the Beirut port explosion is the result of long-standing illnesses in Lebanon, indicating that Lebanon will receive financial support when its leaders implement reforms, while Lebanese President Michel Aoun said that all assumptions are based on the causes that led to the port explosion. .
At the conclusion of his visit to Beirut - after witnessing a catastrophic explosion in the port this month - Hill added that those in power bear part of that outcome, and that Lebanon's leaders have failed to implement sustainable reforms, due to what he said are decades of mismanagement, corruption and repeated failures. .
The American official called on the Lebanese leaders to respond to what he called the legitimate demands of the Lebanese people, and to develop a Lebanese vision for a solution, indicating that his country and its international partners will respond to reforms when the Lebanese leaders commit themselves to making real change, and he said, "But we cannot and will not try to dictate any outcome."
Hill revealed that the US administration will work with Congress to allocate $ 30 million for the flow of grain to Lebanon.
The US official’s visit comes after the visit of regional and international officials, including French President Emmanuel Macron, while Reuters quoted Lebanese President Michel Aoun as saying that he does not see interference in the Lebanese affairs by the French president.
Local and international consultations are taking place to choose a Lebanese government that will temporarily replace the resigned government of Prime Minister Hassan Diab, who justified his resignation said that corruption is greater than the state.
The formation of the government in Lebanon is subject to complex discussions in a country rife with political divisions and governed by a system of power-sharing on a sectarian basis, and the formation of governments in Lebanon is often linked to regional and international understandings.
Official charges
On the other hand, the discriminatory Public Prosecutor in Lebanon, Judge Ghassan Oweidat, accused 25 people - including 19 detainees - in the file of the Beirut Port bombing.
The judicial investigator in the file, Judge Fadi Sawan, received Oweidat's allegation with the records of the preliminary investigations, and began studying them in preparation for the start of his interrogations next Monday.
Among the most prominent of the defendants are the director of Beirut Port, Hassan Quraitem, the current directors of customs, Badri Daher, and the former, Shafiq Marei, on charges that include crimes of negligence and negligence and causing the death of more than 177 people and wounding of thousands, in addition to the destruction of Beirut port facilities and public and private property.