The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates in the caretaker government, Dr. Abdullah Bou Habib, participated in the ninth international forum of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations in the city of Fez in the Kingdom of Morocco. In light of the deep divisions the world is witnessing.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates in the caretaker government, Dr. Abdullah Bou Habib, considered, during his participation in the ninth international forum of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations in Morocco, that “the holding of the forum in the Kingdom of Morocco is an affirmation of its historical roles linked to civilizations and openness.”
Bou Habib stressed that the forum “also constitutes an affirmation of the multiplicity of civilizations and cultures in the world that enrich it and make it a world.
He pointed to “the feature of pluralism in Lebanon, which constitutes a model for coexistence due to the mixing of religions and civilizations in which it lives, and the multiplicity of sects in it and its withdrawal to the cultural, social and political aspects, as the Lebanese live in their pluralism with societal mixing and cultural interaction despite the political difficulties they face from time to time.” .
Bou Habib pointed out that “Lebanon is currently living in the midst of great storms of political instability, leading to an unprecedented economic and financial collapse, which poses a threat to the entity of the state and the structure of society, especially in light of the inability to elect a president for the republic and to implement the required economic and financial reforms on the Lebanese and international levels.” And it is possible that one of the reasons for the crisis is Lebanon’s misuse of the diversity it enjoys.
He explained that “what exacerbates the crisis in Lebanon and threatens the Lebanese model is the entry of a new social component into it, as a result of the massive Syrian displacement since the beginning of the Syrian crisis in 2011, in the absence of a serious road map for their return, which raises doubts about the intention of some of the international community to preserve the model.” It is not possible to wait for political solutions whose indicators have not appeared in its history, especially with the world’s preoccupation with new crises and conflicts that distracted its attention and resources from the problems of the Middle East in general and the Syrian crisis in particular.
He stressed that “Lebanon is the message, it is the meeting place of civilizations, religions and sects, and coexistence, and it is the country of rice, tolerance and beauty, and what is required of the international community, especially from donor countries, is not to increase its urgent internal problems, but to help it to overcome them.”