Politics and economics at the heart of Aoun’s meetings in the Vatican

Allen Al -Bustani wrote in “Call of the homeland”:

At the popular level, the people of the Lebanese community from inside and outside Italy were alarmed to participate in the last farewell ceremony of the late Great Pontiff, including a large Lebanese delegation from Australia. On the political level, a remarkable presence of the President of the Republic, Joseph Aoun, and the first lady, Nemat Aoun, who took a look at the farewell of the body of Pope Francis in his coffin on Friday, and represented Lebanon at the burial ceremony, on Saturday. On the sidelines of the funeral, he was shameful and exchanged for the parties to talk between President Aoun and a number of leaders and leaders of state, most notably the Jordanian monarch, King Abdullah II, the Qatari Prime Minister Muhammad bin Abdul Rahman Al Thani, French President Emmanuel Macron, Italy Prime Minister Georgia Meloni, and others.

The Lebanese Ambassador to the Vatican Ghadi Khoury assured the “Call of the National” that these meetings were not merely marginal conversations, but rather, even quickly, dealt with Lebanon’s economic and political files, and revealed that the visit included two or three contacts with great importance, but it cannot disclose its details and content, as this matter is due to the presidency of the republic.

Ambassador Khoury added that President Aoun had a remarkable reception by the Vatican Prime Minister, Cardinal Petro Parolin, who welcomed him with great enthusiasm and great passion, and discussed with him the affairs of Lebanon in detail in detail.
The Lebanese Ambassador to the Vatican says that it is not a coincidence that the late Pope will hand over the top of the church center in the Vatican of a Lebanese figure, Monsignor Michel Jalakh, who holds the tasks of the Secretary -General of the Eastern Churches, along with many Lebanese who are in charge of prestigious centers in the Vatican.

According to Ambassador Khoury, the greatest ink, which was very related to Saint Charbel since his youth stage, was collected by a multi -faceted relationship with the “Cedar Country”, which he considered a message of peace in the region and a experience of coexistence between religions and civilizations.

He continued: The other point, that Lebanon has the largest percentage of Christians among the countries of the Middle East, this region, which is witnessing a remarkable decrease in the numbers of Christians in it, contrary to all countries of the world. It is also the only country in the region where Christians play a valuable and effective role in the political system, except that the Catholic Church is convinced that “if the Christians of Lebanon are fine, the Christians are fine.”