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Lebanon's Foreign Minister - Gebran Bassil

Why is Lebanon dogged by chaos? HARDtalk's Stephen Sackur speaks to the country鈥檚 Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil.

Why is Lebanon dogged by chaos? HARDtalk's Stephen Sackur speaks to the country鈥檚 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鈥檚 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)

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