French President Emmanuel Macron pledged today, Tuesday, to use his weight to help Lebanon emerge from its current crisis.

While linking the handover of donor funds to the achievement of reforms, Macron asked the Lebanese for answers regarding the reality of the banking system, and expressed his position on Hezbollah's participation in power.

The French President - who arrived in Beirut on Monday evening - said that he would use his weight to form a new Lebanese government and implement reforms.

The French President expressed his readiness to organize a new international support conference for Lebanon next month, in cooperation with the United Nations.

The French President held a meeting on board the helicopter carrier "Tonner" in the port of Beirut with representatives of civil society and the United Nations, and said, "We need to focus during the next six months on the state of emergency and continue to mobilize the international community."

"I am ready to organize again - perhaps between mid-October and the end of October - an international support conference in cooperation with the United Nations," he added, indicating his readiness to host the conference in Paris.

Macron pointed out that the goal is that "we can again request support from various countries to finance aid and ship it immediately to Beirut."

On August 9, France sponsored an international conference in support of Lebanon, during which the participants pledged to provide more than 250 million euros to help the Lebanese, provided that it was provided under the auspices of the United Nations and directly to the Lebanese people, without going through the state institutions accused of corruption.

The conference was organized days after the Beirut Port bombing, which left 190 dead and thousands injured, and caused massive destruction in the city.

Political meetings.


Macron's long program of work Tuesday is full of important political meetings, most notably with President Michel Aoun and representatives of the main political forces.

Macron - who is visiting Beirut for the second time in less than a month - warns that his efforts are the "last chance" to save the crumbling political and economic system in Lebanon.

The main political forces anticipated the arrival of Macron by agreeing to assign Mustafa Adib to form a new government.

Meanwhile, the French President made it clear to the Lebanese that he would not release the funds pledged to Lebanon at the Paris 2018 conference unless reforms were implemented.

Macron said he wanted to know the real numbers about the Lebanese banking system, calling for an audit of the accounts.

Regarding Hezbollah, Macron said it is "part of the Lebanese political system and is elected."