WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump said during a meeting with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun on Tuesday that Lebanon had been hit hard for decades and that the United States would help the country going forward.
“It’s been a very badly treated place and country, and we’re going to have it properly treated, and treated with the respect that it deserves,” Trump said.
Meanwhile, Aoun urged Trump to maintain American support for his country’s military, warning that southern Lebanon could see a return of the chaos of the 1970s without Washington’s backing.
“We don’t want to see that back again. All we’re asking is, keep supporting the LAF,” Aoun told reporters of the Lebanese Armed Forces during a White House meeting with Trump on Tuesday.
“All we’re asking is, keep supporting the LAF... I fully trust the LAF. I fully trust the leadership of the LAF.”
