The two-page “concept paper” was delivered by the French ambassador to Beirut, a Lebanese political source said. A diplomatic source at Macron’s Elysee office said no document has been given to Lebanese parties. “The priority must go to the rapid formation of a government, to avoid a power vacuum which will leave Lebanon to sink further into the crisis,” the French paper reads. Since then, he has held multiple phone calls with major political leaders under the country’s sectarian power-sharing system, a Lebanese political source said. “Factions must be engaged to vote on the key measures that the new government will take in the next few months.”The roadmap could deepen France’s role in Lebanon, a former French colony.

Source: bd News24 August 26, 2020 21:45 UTC