BEIRUT: Poverty and deprivation are destabilizing factors in the pursuit of peace, Maronite Patriarch Beshara Rai said Sunday following his visit to the site of last Saturday’s suicide bombings in Tripoli.
“In order to confront those aiming at instigating division, it is inacceptable for Tripoli to be a city of poverty and deprivation because there is no peace where there is underdevelopment,” the National News Agency (NNA) quoted Rai as saying.
Rai expressed his condolences to the families of those who died in last week’s attack on Jabal Mohsen, that left nine dead and 30 injured.
He urged the government to assume its responsibility toward Tripoli’s development, emphasizing that the Army and the security forces were the only guarantors to a decent and honorable life, El-Nashra reported.
In turn, the Head of the Alawite Islamic Council Sheikh Assad Assi noted that “ethical and religious motivations are indeed what led Rai to make this visit, which can only be seen through a humanitarian perspective,” El-Nashra reported.
After his visit to Jabal Mohsen, Rai headed to the Karami residence in Tripoli to pay condolences over the passing of late former Prime Minister Omar Karami.
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