Aoun well connected

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The newly appointed President Joseph Aoun is a good soldier, has no corruption in his past and has good relations with the US, France and Saudi Arabia, the secretary general of Lebanon’s political party The National Bloc Michel Helou says.  #Lebanon #JosephAoun

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00:00OK, so, as we've been saying, he's got the support of Parliament, he's domestically respected.

00:07You were touching on there the international image that he has. And it's important, isn't

00:13it, that whoever the president of Lebanon is has the support of Lebanon's allies. And

00:20I'm obviously thinking of Washington, but not only. You're saying that Joseph Aoun

00:24does have that rapport, he does have the respect that he needs from Lebanon's main allies.

00:31Yes, definitely. Joseph Aoun has proven a good soldier, a very good commander, has been

00:39in charge for close to eight years now of the Lebanese army and has done a very solid

00:47job. He also has no rumors or no corruption dossiers or topics around him or accusations,

01:00which is good in a country where, unfortunately, the political class is known for widespread

01:05corruption. So this is very good. He's a clean man. He's very respected and very seen

01:11as a professional commander, be it by the Americans that have helped train him for the

01:17last decades or by the French or by the Saudis with whom he has very solid relations.

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