Hariri’s inability to form government ‘new disappointment’ for Lebanon – Roya News English

Hariri’s inability to form government ‘new disappointment’ for Lebanon – Roya News English

Thursday, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said Saad Hariri's abandonment of forming a government in Lebanon, nine months after he was assigned this task, represents a "new disappointment" for the Lebanese people mired in a stifling political and economic crisis.

Blinken said in a statement that Hariri's apology for not forming a government "is a new disappointment for the Lebanese people," stressing "the critical importance of forming now a government that is committed and able to implement priority reforms."

Hariri's apology Thursday came at a time when Lebanon is going through a stifling political and economic crisis that cannot be resolved, in the eyes of international donors, without the formation of a government that implements structural reforms.