Aoun assures the international community of the reform drive

Guterres proposes a plan to help the Lebanese people recover

Aoun signed a law aimed at providing compensation and pensions to the families of the victims in the Beirut Port bombing.

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The Secretary-General of the United Nations, António Guterres, proposed a new joint plan to help the Lebanese people recover from the repercussions of the tragic Beirut Port explosion, which occurred in early August.

This came during a video message sent by Guterres to the Virtual Lebanon Support Conference hosted by France, the day before yesterday, in order to mobilize international assistance for Lebanon to confront the results of the Beirut Port explosion, which caused the death of about 193 people and the injury of hundreds, and the destruction of many facilities and places of character Heritage.

During his message, the Secretary-General highlighted the reform, recovery and reconstruction framework prepared by the World Bank in cooperation with the European Union and the United Nations, indicating that those affected by this explosion have not yet received satisfactory answers, even four months after the explosion.

The Secretary-General stressed the importance of assessing the situation in Lebanon, and pointed to the effects of the "Covid-19" pandemic, which has caused Lebanon, as elsewhere, to exacerbate the already fragile economic and financial situation.

For his part, the Lebanese President, Michel Aoun, signed yesterday a law aimed at providing compensation and pensions to the families of the victims in the Beirut port bombing.

Yesterday, Aoun stressed that the international community, which is following the reform process in Lebanon, must be reassured.

"Reform is my battle since 2005, and this was repeated in 2009, and adherence to criminal financial auditing is an important and fundamental basis for this reform," he said during his meeting with the British Secretary of State for the Middle East and North Africa, James Cleverley.

Aoun presented "the difficulties facing Lebanon, including the repercussions of the Syrian war on it, the displacement of more than one million and 800 thousand Syrians to Lebanon, and its impact on the various Lebanese sectors."

He reiterated his "call for the need to support the international community for the return of displaced Syrians to safe areas in Syria," stressing "the necessity of providing assistance to Syrians in their country, in order to encourage them to return."

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