Lebanese president calls for proclamation of ‘secular state’

BEIRUT — Lebanese President Michel Aoun calls for the proclamation of a “secular state” during a televised address to mark the upcoming centenary of the Lebanese state.

“I call for the proclamation of Lebanon as a secular state,” Aoun says, during a speech in which he acknowledged the need “to change the system,” after an enormous explosion at Beirut’s port in early August and months of deepening economic crisis.

— AFP

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