According to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jean-Noël Barrot, also present in Lebanon, “This ceasefire, which France carried, put an end to a situation which threatened to plunge Lebanon into chaos. The first priority was humanitarian aid, because this war had displaced hundreds of thousands of people far from their homes.. « The second priority »according to him, consists of “sustain this ceasefire”as we arrive “halfway”. The third and final priority is the “economic, social and political recovery of Lebanon”.
The two ministers finally returned to the role of UNIFIL, the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon. “If she wasn’t there, it would be worse,” the summary M. Lecornu. “All those who criticize it have never given us a new idea instead”continued the Minister of the Armed Forces, according to whom, in the current geopolitical context “inventing something new is very difficult”. For Mr. Lecornu, “what exists has the merit of existing and if it had not existed, the confrontation between Hezbollah and the IDF could have been stronger or more violent, because there were precisely these United Nations posts observing”. On this subject, the minister wished to recall that “these are not interposition peacekeepers”which “this is not the mandate given here”, in opposition to what may have happened in the Balkans in the 1990s. If, according to him, everything is not perfect, we must be careful “not to fall into a bashing in which we destroy everything”.
