Lebanon, which arises by the Israeli-Hezbollah War, needs changes to open the help

On the first day of the office, Lebanon’s new Finance Minister Yassine Jaber, sat at the table, read a color coded report on the position of the ministry’s operations. It was in a red color that excites everything.

Computers were decades – some still fled on Windows 98. As many governmentThe ministry rely on the mountains of the paper records, which allows to allow dysfunction and corruption.

“It can’t go on as they are things,” he said.

Lebanon needs money to correct how it works. However, to attract money, it is necessary to correct it: it has been required for international financial assistance required to carry out funding for finance and management in international financial assistance for years economic crisis.

Now this support is more important among the 14-month war between Israel and Hezbollah after 14 months of war in this small Mediterranean country, 14-month war. It takes a fragile reconciliation, but the large parts of Lebanon are in ruins. Hezbollah was beaten and could not pay for reconstruction. Lebanon’s new government According to Mr. Caber, the bill can provide “openly none of them.”

Foreign donors keep the key to Lebanon, but in order to meet their requirements, the state has never done before: When he faces the thorny issue of Hezbollah’s arms, painful economic and structural changes should be done.

“Foreign assistance is not only charity,” said Paul Salem, Vice President of International Jobs at the Middle East Institute in Washington. “If their position is not respected, they do not intend to give billions of billions of dollars and billions of dollars.”

The general loss of war and economic loss is estimated to be $ 14 billion and $ 11 billion for reconstruction of Lebanon, this month is the most destructive country since this month ended in 1990.

“It is very important to move fast on the reconstruction; people lie in tents. He was paralyzed in the whole part of the Lebanon,” Mr. Jaber in the office in the office last month. “Today, everything is a priority.”

Destruction in 2019, the financial system united the country’s economic woes, which began in 2019 when the public debt collapsed. A sovereign standard and the desired banks encouraged to apply unofficial capital control by leaving many Lebanese people The savings of their lives are frozen.

Lebanon has reached 2022 funding agreement with the International Monetary Fund, and the country is calculated as a lifelong line, including the country’s weak management and the reconstruction of the financial sector. The government could not deliver the country’s political elite with the lack of interest and videos.

“Lebanon should start with helping him,” Mr. Jaber said. “How do you do that? Starting to show true action.”

Mr. Jaber spoke to the New York Times a day after Lebanon’s new government This is a political point of view of Hezbollah. Mr. Jaber is now one of the strongest figures in the country, and has public spending and is responsible for ensuring reconstruction efforts and foreign assistance.

Hezbollah’s protection, Iran, in 2006 helped the group to reconstruct after the last major conflict with Israel, but now they do not want crisisAnalysts said. The group was also isolated by another ally and collapse of the Assad regime in Syria.

As a result, Hezbollah is strong before the war because he could not consider a state account within a state and did not know Mr. Caber.

“It’s a different period.”

Lebanon has so far been pledged from the World Bank with the help of $ 250 million.

Some experts ask if the government can make systematic change. President Yusif Houn said that foreign aid hopes that new policies could come “step by step”.

In addition to uncertainty, international aid can only be more dependent than financial capital repairs. In November, by the reconciliation agreement, Hizbollah should also disarm the war – a Position to risk violence Hizbollah’s great Shiite supporters and their local opponents. Experts said that the United States and the Gulf Arab countries consider a condition for a condition for unarmed assistance.

The Lebanese government has promised to draw under the control of the state, but it does not know how much it will achieve, and if it will happen. Mr. Jaber did not comment to leave Hezbollah, but not a political party founded by the group’s popular support and the political role was not a protest point.

Hezbollah remains a strong military force, and some Lebanese officials were forcibly disarmed in resolving officials through negotiations. At the beginning of this month, the group leader Naim Qassem, “Resistance” clearly rejected his thoughts on making fun of his weapons.

The government “Bombed in both demands: painful economic and financial reforms and Hezbollah’s financial and existence,” said Carnegie in the Middle Eastern Center in Beirut. But first, from financing, “you push a government and a president to a president, without any water and the most difficult goals.”

Hezbollah officials did not associate with the basis of reconstruction, the process of reconstructing, not afraid the process of reconstruction, experts said. According to the United Nations, about 100,000 people in Lebanon are expelled, the vast majority of them are the vast majority of Hezbollah in the south.

“Reform will take a hell for a long time,” Mr. Hage hand.

Wanting to convince Hezbollah’s supporters, the group promised compensation between 12,000 and 14,000 per human house between $ 12,000 and $ 14,000 to pay for lease expenses and pay furniture. However, the process was broken by delays.

Ali-Hezbollah is mainly outside, the diplomatic effort to convince foreign donors continues to crash. Lebanese officials met with the IMF delegation in Bearf this month, which said that Mr. Caber aims to restart the talks on the long-awaited rescue package of the organization. An EU official said they would follow the talks of Brussels in the last month Evaluate that Europe can offer its own financial assistance.

Mr. Caber, who is immediately priority, said he appointed a fundamental central bank governor to revive the country’s banking sector. Lebanon, Riad Salameh’s role in 2023, could not be the name of a heir because he faced the accusations he fled The world’s largest ponzi scheme To control a strategy that requires more debt to pay more.

Lebanese’s new leaders, a foreign audit of all public organizations, a part of a wider collateral promised to crack up to promised corruption the country for a long time.

Mr Jaber said he was hoping, but he confessed to the uncertainty.

“There is a way where there is a will,” he said. The government encounters a test “on their will.” “

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