[HIGHLIGHTS] Emmanuel Macron receives the Maronite patriarch and calls on Lebanon to "break the deadlock"

Emmanuel Macron met Tuesday, May 30 in Paris with the influential Lebanese Maronite Patriarch Bechara Raï. The French president and the patriarch "shared their deep concerns about the crisis" and "the paralysis of institutions" They agreed on the need for a president of the Republic to be elected without delay, the Elysee reported.

Emmanuel Macron spoke in particular of "the need" that the Christians of Lebanon "remain at the center of the confessional and institutional balance of the Lebanese state"