Generations have allowed their citizens to sink into poverty and despair the explosion was a terrible symbol of that neglect the cause a highly volatile quantity of Ammonium Nitrate but it sat for years in a warehouse of port officials warned of the dangers posed mornings but was systematically ignored but would anything change in the aftermath would anyone ever be held to account for and sympathy arrived in the shape of Frances Emanuel macro when he brought an uncompromising message theres no blank check he told people if your Political Class fails we wont come from that part of the state and fail it did days later the government resigned not only did the politicians have no answers they had like so many before the simply given up who would now fill the vacuum. Hello and welcome to this special edition of conflict zone over the last 4 years weve interviewed several senior lebanese politicians about the inexorable breakdown of their economy and their state institutions what they told u
Assistance what guarantees can he get that his government is any better than the previous ones. Not soon 15 welcome to a conflict zone thank you 2 weeks ago your Prime Minister mr de brought an article in the u. S. Paper pleading for International Assistance and blaming lebanons dire situation on a combination of political mismanagement and corruption why do you think that the rest of the world with its economy in tatters from the coronavirus should simply hand you huge sums of money and let you do the same thing all over again. Well 1st and foremost because were not going to do what happened before from day one when we started working in this government our plan is clear is to fight corruption to go for structural reform and and structural reform its not minor reforms its basically forms and if you loss of the of the economy not only in the Financial Sector but the economy which is the basic matter to address to go more to go away from our and entier economy as much as we can and go i
Assistance what guarantees can he get that his government is any better than the previous ones. Not seen fit to welcome to conflict zone thank you 2 weeks ago your Prime Minister mr de brought an article in the u. S. Paper pleading for International Assistance and blaming lebanons dire situation on a combination of political mismanagement and corruption why do you think that the rest of the world with its economy in tatters from the coronavirus should simply hand you huge sums of money and let you do the same thing all over again. Well 1st and foremost because were not going to goo what happened before from day one when we started working in this government our plan is clear is to fight corruption to go for structural reform and Alliance Structural reform thats not minor reforms its basically forms and if you lost a few of the economy not only in the Financial Sector but the economy which is the basic matter to address to go more to go away from our and entier economy as much as we can
Joining me from beirut this week is the countrys foreign minister. As level negotiates urgently for assistance what guarantees can he get that his government is any better than the previous ones. Welcome to the conflict zone thank you 2 weeks ago your Prime Minister mr d r brought an article in the u. S. Paper pleading for International Assistance and blaming lebanons dire situation on a combination of political mismanagement and corruption why do you think that the rest of the world with its economy in tatters from the coronavirus should simply hand you huge sums of money and let you do the same thing all over again. Well 1st and foremost because were not going to do what happened before from day one when we started working in this government our plan is clear is to fight corruption to go for structural reform and drive structural reform its not mine the reforms its basically forms and if you also feel of the economy not only in the Financial Sector but the economy which is the basic
Assistance what guarantees can he get that his government is any better than the previous ones. Not seen 15 welcome to a conflict zone thank you 2 weeks ago your Prime Minister missed the day our brought an article in the u. S. Paper pleading for International Assistance and blaming lebanons dire situation on a combination of political mismanagement and corruption why do you think that the rest of the world with its economy in tatters from the coronavirus should simply hand you huge sums of money and let you do the same thing all over again. Well 1st and foremost because were not going to do what happened before from day one when we started working in this government our plan is clear is to fight corruption to go for structural reform and and structural reform thats not minor reforms its basically forms and if you also feel of the economy not only in the Financial Sector but the economy which is the basic matter to address to go more to go away from out entier economy as much as we can