I just had a very good meeting with Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri.
As you would expect, our discussions touched on ongoing efforts with regard to the formation of a new government and agreement on a new electoral law. Obviously, we hope that both will be brought to an early and successful conclusion.
On a number of occasions recently, members of the international community have stressed the importance of swift progress with regard to agreement on the electoral law. I said last week that time is short and obviously now it is shorter still. But I believe that agreement is within reach of Lebanon’s leaders and I would encourage them to continue to work with the Speaker and to redouble their efforts to achieve it.
As always, we also discussed the implementation of Security Council resolution 1701 and regional developments and the importance of sustaining Lebanon’s policy of dissociation from regional conflicts and the Baabda Declaration.
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