Participants:
- Member of the Swiss National Council, Fabian Molina.
- Head of Public Relations department at the UNSCR for Lebanon, Nour Bou Malhab.
- Representative of the Lebanese International Lobby “LIL” Fouad Salamé.

Participants representing the Lebanese-Swiss Association “LSA”:
- President of the Lebanese-Swiss Association, Wadih Assaf.
- Legal Advisor at the Lebanese-Swiss Association Nadine Moussa.
- Board Member – Strategic Initiatives at the Lebanese-Swiss Association Forrest Partovi.

Lebanon has now been without an effective government for over a year and is incapable to fulfil the basic functions of governance including the ability:
• to enforce the rule of law
• assume the responsibility to protect its own people
• to control the country’s territory,
• to exercise a monopoly on military force.
• to enforce UN resolutions
Lebanon has been in the grip of entrenched endemic and systemic grand corruption and criminal mismanagement for decades, targeted, as part of a systematic and habitual attack, against the entire civilian population of Lebanon
These actions by the government are intentional and deliberate. Lebanon, as such, is unable to act as a rational player in the international community and unable to represent its citizens and their best interest in the international framework of the United Nations. Lebanon is not protecting its citizens and residents from crimes against humanity.
The result is a failed state and human tragedy setting world peace and security at risk.

Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter sets out the UN Security Council 's powers to maintain peace. It allows the Council to "determine the existence of any threat to the peace, breach of the peace, or act of aggression" and to take military and non-military action to "restore international peace and security"
• We call upon the UN Security Council to recognize the fact that Lebanon has become a failed state and that it presents a threat to world peace and stability and thus invoke chapter 7 powers to maintain peace and security.
• We call upon the UN Security Council and the majority of the Members of the United Nations to ask SecGen Mr. Guterres to convoke a UN Special Session on Lebanon under the R2P commitment endorsed by all UN member states, to discuss appropriate mechanisms to deploy to protect Lebanon from crimes against humanity and human rights violations. Further we would call on the Special Session to acknowledge the victims of such crimes.
• We call on the UN to step in and take charge of the administration of state affairs for a limited period of time and with a specific agenda - including the upcoming parliamentary elections - in application of article 39 Chapter 7 of the UN Chart with aim to rid the country of the entrenched criminal gangs that presently rule, and to create a free, prosperous, peaceful and democratic country.
• We call upon all upon all Lebanese education systems in Lebanon to teach new generations the root causes and failures of Lebanese society that lead to this catastrophe, promote Republican and Democratic values from a unified curriculum crafted by objective historians and technocrats so that the future Lebanon will be one of peace, prosperity and freedom for all his citizens.

​

Winterthur, 12 June 2021

​

​