French president to visit Beirut as world rallies around Lebanon

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Many nations have rallied around Lebanon as it continues to deal with the aftermath of the huge explosion in Beirut that killed at least 100 and injured thousands&period; Reflecting both the gravity of the disaster and France’s special relationship with its former protectorate&comma; President Emmanuel Macron was due to visit Lebanon on Thursday&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;--Ads1--><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Paris wasted no time in dispatching two planeloads of specialists&comma; rescue workers and supplies to Beirut on Wednesday&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote class&equals;"twitter-tweet" data-width&equals;"550" data-dnt&equals;"true">&NewLine;<p lang&equals;"fr" dir&equals;"ltr">Je me rendrai demain à Beyrouth à la rencontre du peuple libanais pour lui porter le message de fraternité et de solidarité des Français&period; Nous ferons le point sur la situation avec les autorités politiques&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&mdash&semi; Emmanuel Macron &lpar;&commat;EmmanuelMacron&rpar; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;EmmanuelMacron&sol;status&sol;1290987025391329281&quest;ref&lowbar;src&equals;twsrc&percnt;5Etfw">August 5&comma; 2020<&sol;a><&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;platform&period;twitter&period;com&sol;widgets&period;js" charset&equals;"utf-8"><&sol;script><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The blast appeared to have been triggered by a fire that touched off a giant quantity of ammonium nitrate fertiliser stored in the port&comma; which exploded with the force of a moderately strong earthquake&period; The European Union was activating its civil protection system to round up emergency workers and equipment from across the 27-nation bloc&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;159894" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-159894" style&equals;"width&colon; 600px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;08&sol;4C68C7BC-8678-4DD8-9758-4271BEFF15C9&period;jpeg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"400" class&equals;"size-full wp-image-159894" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-159894" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Workers in Iran unload boxes of aid supplies from a lorry to load on to a plane bound for Beirut&comma; Lebanon<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>The EU commission said the plan was to urgently dispatch over 100 firefighters with vehicles&comma; sniffer dogs and equipment designed to find people trapped in urban areas&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Czech Republic&comma; Germany&comma; Greece&comma; Poland and the Netherlands were taking part in the effort with other countries expected to join&period; The EU’s satellite mapping system will be used to help Lebanese authorities establish the extent of damage&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Cyprus&comma; where Tuesday’s blast was felt approximately 120 miles from Beirut&comma; was sending in emergency personnel and sniffer dogs&period; Help also was coming from closer to home&period; Iraq was sending six trucks of medical supplies and an emergency medical team to help bolster Lebanon’s overstretched health system&comma; and Egypt and Jordan were supplying field hospitals&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Even Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his country&comma; officially in a state of war with Lebanon&comma; stood ready to offer to assist the Lebanese &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;as human beings to human beings”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>UN peacekeepers from Indonesia already stationed in Lebanon were helping in the evacuation effort&comma; and Australia said it was donating two million Australian dollars in humanitarian support&period; But the pledges of aid raised new questions for a country whose economic and political crisis&comma; combined with endemic corruption&comma; have made donors wary in recent years&period; Mr Macron’s visit could carry some awkward moments&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In a visit to Lebanon less than two weeks ago&comma; French foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian made clear that France&comma; Beirut’s steadfast economic backer&comma; would withhold support not destined directly to the Lebanese population&comma; until &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;credible and serious reform measures” get under way&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;159896" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-159896" style&equals;"width&colon; 600px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;08&sol;BE92FAE4-0407-4B95-84DE-6B3099755B9C&period;jpeg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"322" class&equals;"size-full wp-image-159896" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-159896" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">The docks before and after the huge blast in the Lebanese capital&comma; Beirut<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>Whether the French president would skirt his country’s own no-go zone and offer more than emergency aid was unclear&period; About 11 billion US dollars was pledged to Lebanon at a 2018 Paris conference — but on condition reforms are undertaken&period; The French workers sent to Lebanon on Wednesday include members of a special unit trained to intervene in damaged industrial sites&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;--Ads2--><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Among their tasks will be to identify special risks resulting from the explosion&comma; said national civil security spokesman Michael Bernier&period; The World Health Organisation is airlifting medical supplies to Lebanon to cover up to 1&comma;000 trauma interventions and up to 1&comma;000 surgical interventions&comma; following a request from the country’s health minister&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;159897" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-159897" style&equals;"width&colon; 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