President of the Republic, General Michel Aoun, asserted that “The National Authority for the Missing and Forcibly Disappeared, which was established according to Law No. 105 (30/11/2018), is tasked to follow-up this humanitarian issue with distinction, in the hope of reaching practical results which reveal the fate of these missing and forcibly disappeared persons”.

“This ends their sufferings and reassures their families, turning a painful page from the chapters of the events which Lebanon witnessed over the years” the President said. In addition, President Aoun stressed his full support for the Commission’s work, emphasizing his keenness that concerned state institutions exert all possible efforts in order to reach desired ends.

Positions of the President came while meeting members of the National Commission for the Missing and Forcibly Disappeared, Judge Salim Al-Osta, and Forensic Doctor, Hassan Fayyad Hussein, today at the Presidential Palace.

Judges Al-Osta and Hussein made the following oath before President Aoun:

“I swear by God Almighty to carry-out my duties, at the National Commission for the Missing and Victims of Enforced Disappearance, with honesty, sincerity, independence and impartiality, and to conduct all my actions in a manner which inspires confidence and concern for the supremacy of right, and the protection and promotion of human rights”.

Source: National News Agency