Lebanese Forces party leader Samir Geagea responded on Sunday to comments made the previous day by US envoy to Syria and Lebanon Tom Barrack regarding the Lebanese authorities, urging them to take action on disarming Hezbollah.
“It is clear and obvious that international policy as a whole, in conjunction with a quasi-consensus among Arab countries, is striving to organize the situation in the region in order to free it from the abnormal conditions that existed in some of its countries, with the aim of achieving normal states, starting with Iran,” Geagea said in a statement.
The day before, Barrack had sounded the alarm, saying that Lebanon “faces an existential danger” if it does not take swift action to resolve the issue of Hezbollah's arsenal, in an interview with the Emirati newspaper The National, published on Friday.
My comments yesterday praised Syria’s impressive strides, not a threat to Lebanon. I observed the reality that Syria is moving at light speed to seize the historic opportunity presented by @POTUS’s lifting of sanctions: investment from Türkiye and the Gulf, diplomatic outreach to…
— Ambassador Tom Barrack (@USAMBTurkiye) July 12, 2025
“International politics cannot tolerate a vacuum, and any country that fails to organize its affairs and restore order to its constitution, institutions and functioning as a real state will be out of the running and on the margins of history,” Geagea said.
The leader of the Lebanese Forces warned the government that “if the authorities, and through them the Lebanese government, continue to hesitate, slow down their decisions and take timid measures regarding the creation of a real state in Lebanon, they will bear the responsibility of seeing Lebanon, the nation and the state, once again tossed about by the winds.” He went on to emphasize that “the days we are living through are crucial, critical and decisive.”
“Any continued failure by the Lebanese government and authorities to transform Lebanon into a de facto state could set us back decades, or even worse and more dangerous,” warned Geagea.
“The Lebanese authorities must decide as quickly as possible and take the necessary practical measures” in this regard, as they are the only entity “capable of guaranteeing the well-being of all Lebanese groups,” he stated.
“Otherwise, they will continue to deprive Lebanon of its autonomy and expose it to increased exploitation.”
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