Ghassan Salamé: Lebanon negotiating with Israel ‘to provide serenity, prosperity to fellow countrymen’ – Highlight

François Picard welcomes Ghassan Salamé, Lebanon’s Minister of Tradition. Salamé portrays Lebanon as a rustic that has preserved political pluralism and freedom of expression, and persevered regardless of a long time of battle. Inside this context, he frames negotiation with Israel not as a matter of alternative, however of necessity: the one viable path towards stability, dignity, and the essential circumstances for the Lebanese folks to dwell and thrive. These circumstances, he argues, depend upon full sovereignty over their land, folks, and waters, alongside the respect for worldwide legislation.