NNA - Director General of Public Security, Major General Abbas Ibrahim affirmed that "we have no choice but the state and its institutions to build a new Lebanon as desired by the rising generations."

Ibrahim spoke during a luncheon hosted in Zahle in his honor by Dr. Youssef Chaanin, in appreciation of his efforts in releasing Dr. Richard Kharrat.

"Based on our humanitarian duty first and our professional duty second, we are in the General Directorate of Public Security and based on the tasks entrusted to us by law, we have never hesitated to pursue any Lebanese file that has problems abroad, and here we must thank the Emirates, which cooperated from the first moment with the General Directorate Public Security in the case of Dr. Richard Kharrat," Ibrahim added.

He concluded by saying: "I take this opportunity to announce the continuation of coordination regarding the file of other Lebanese detainees, and for each case according to its circumstances."

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