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that this proposal would gain consensus between the President of the Republic and the government, and that the Foreign Minister would work to adopt it at the United Nations. Then we would have come a long way toward preserving our south and our country. All of that can only be achieved through internal understandings, because abroad, in my opinion, will not think about our interest as much as we think about it. Therefore, it is better that we define what we want, instead of what the outside wants being imposed on us, especially since we have fears that additional concessions will be imposed on us beyond what we have already offered.

In light of this complete absence, we today made a tour and presented an initiative to the President of the Republic, the Speaker of Parliament and the Prime Minister, stipulating the provision of a commitment and guarantee from the five permanent members of the Security Council, so that they oversee the implementation of the Israeli withdrawal, the return of the displaced and reconstruction. It also includes the disarmament of all illegal weapons present in Lebanon, the handover of the entire southern region to the state, and the deployment of the Lebanese army in it and its assumption of full responsibility, under the sponsorship of the five major countries that are divided between 'two teams', in a way that achieves justice and ensures the implementation of the resolution and guarantees compliance with it.

Always, unfortunately, we wait for a solution from the government, while the government in turn waits for what will happen abroad. But abroad will never be occupied with our concerns or waiting for what it can do to help Lebanon. Therefore, we wished the government would initiate finding solutions to this situation, especially since we have known for a year that we would reach this result.

This barrel will harm the entire environment, and will strike the land and the trees. And if the winter comes and these materials travel with the rainwater, we are heading toward a catastrophe.

Why? To protect the environment. You feared for nature, you feared for the tree, you feared for the land. And what did you do? They brought a barrel of toxic materials and placed it in Marj Bisri, and to this day there is no solution.

What did you say and what did you do? A great achievement. You prevented us from building the Bisri Dam, which was capable of preserving water and helping about one million six hundred thousand citizens, and changing the image of the entire region.