The French president receiving the L'Orient-Le Jour team at the Élysée. (Credit: Laurent Selinder/OLJ)
Since the arrest of Saad Hariri in Saudi Arabia in 2017, up to the election of Joseph Aoun last week, you have never abandoned Lebanon. What explains this constant commitment to a country that is not larger than a region in France and does not represent a major strategic issue on the international scene?First, because I love it and because I love the men and women who live there, but who have also spread around the world. And also because there is a unique history between France and Lebanon, and France believes it has a particular responsibility towards this country. But above all, because I find that what is happening there — and that is why I have said several times that Lebanon is bigger "than itself" — is the possibility of a world we believe in, the possibility of a civilization that is not reduced to a religion, ethnicity or group....
Since the arrest of Saad Hariri in Saudi Arabia in 2017, up to the election of Joseph Aoun last week, you have never abandoned Lebanon. What explains this constant commitment to a country that is not larger than a region in France and does not represent a major strategic issue on the international scene?First, because I love it and because I love the men and women who live there, but who have also spread around the world. And also because there is a unique history between France and Lebanon, and France believes it has a particular responsibility towards this country. But above all, because I find that what is happening there — and that is why I have said several times that Lebanon is bigger "than itself" — is the possibility of a world we believe in, the possibility of a civilization that is not reduced to a religion, ethnicity or...
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