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The Interview

The Interview

Lebanon's Foreign Minister - Gebran Bassil

23 September 2019

24 minutes

Available for over a year

Why is Lebanon dogged by chaos? HARDtalk's Stephen Sackur speaks to the country’s Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil. Lebanese politics is a world of complex alliances, delicate inter-communal arrangements, and almost permanent instability. Lebanon currently has a functioning government but it’s dealing with a host of deep problems: the economy is a mess, national debt is spiralling and regional conflict threatens to pull the country apart at the seams. Is the current Lebanese government making a bad situation worse?

Image: Gebran Bassil (Credit: Clemens Bilan/EPA)