Today, Wednesday, an international conference was launched to help the Lebanese people, on the initiative of France and under the auspices of the United Nations, with the participation of international organizations and donors.

French President Emmanuel Macron called on Lebanese politicians to form a new government to implement reforms in the country, "otherwise Lebanon will not receive international aid."

Macron said he would return to Lebanon this month to put pressure on the political class.

The French presidency said that no measures had been implemented under the proposed French road map to aid Lebanon, nor had any progress been made with regard to auditing the accounts of the Central Bank of Lebanon.

She pointed out that the US sanctions against the political class in Lebanon have not borne fruit, and that they will not lead to the formation of a new Lebanese government.

The organization of the conference comes 4 months after the devastating explosion in the Beirut port, which left hundreds dead and thousands injured.

Earlier, the French presidency said that the conference "aims to evaluate the aid provided by the international community, evaluate arrangements for its distribution since the August 9th conference, and consider new needs and work to meet them, in the context of the crisis facing Lebanon."

It is noteworthy that the August conference, which was organized in an emergency, provided aid worth 250 million euros to Lebanon.

Deliberate recession


and in recent months, intensified the

economic crisis in Lebanon, described by the

World Bank as the

"recession deliberate" in a

report published Tuesday, denouncing " the

lack of

political consensus on national priorities" ,

which "strongly Lebanon 's

ability to implement long -

prudent development policies that

hinder the

term" .

In addition to an unprecedented decline in the value of the Lebanese currency and inflation, political forces are still unable, due to divisions and disagreements over quotas, to form a government 3 months after the resignation of the caretaker prime minister, Hassan Diab, despite international pressure led by France.

After the disaster of the port explosion, Macron visited Lebanon twice, on August 6 and then on September 1, when he announced that he had obtained from local political forces a commitment to form a government of independent specialists within 15 days, but the pledge was not fulfilled.

On October 22, Lebanese President Michel Aoun assigned former Prime Minister Saad Hariri to form a new government, but his efforts have so far failed to bear fruit due to internal divisions.

Before Hariri was appointed, the Lebanese president had assigned diplomat Mustafa Adib to form a technocratic government, but he later apologized after he bumped into the differences of the political parties.