We rarely hear a Russian Administrator diving into the political details of an Arabic country , including Syria the closest state to the Russian effort and attention ... not to mention Lebanon ?!
Here in Moscow, one of the officials do not hesitate to disclosure that «Lebanese , foreigners and Arabic officials from different authorities, including princes and presidents extracted Moscow's opinion in the Lebanese presidential elections since the beginning of the presidential blank in Baabda. So they received the specifications of a President, without specifying the name itself, leaving to everyone who asked the placeing of the correspondent specifications name in the blank, according to the strategy of staying away from the local politics’ demons in the friendly countries before others ».
So who thought that the «Sukhoi» capital can press on «Hezbollah» in the option of the so-called "Centrist President" was disappointed, Like one of the «14 of March» Ministers who tried earlier during a meeting with a senior Russian diplomats, to push to this direction. Identical words was he heard by a «reluctant» Minister some time ago when he tried to push the Russian leadership to support a particular «reluctant» candidate in the framework of «Partnership in the fight against terrorism and the protection of Christians».
However, the Russian attitude towards the parties of conflict in Lebanon, which was heard by ministers from the Lebanese sides in Moscow, and which was repeated by Russia's Ambassador to Lebanon Alexander Sasepkin, one of the pillars of Russian diplomacy in the Arab and Muslim world, did not prevent a big Russian officials from meeting a centrist candidate in a third capital away from Moscow and Beirut, and his visit to another candidate in Beirut.
A second Russian official met a centrist candidates from outside the presidential traded names Club and away from the lights and with a very rich meeting's proceedings. But they are all just stayed explore and reconnaissance sessions, and the target from them not to choose a president but to take as much as many files about the characters that Russia hopes to embodied the specifications of corresponds in the one who will receive the title of President.
So what are the specifications for the president that Russia would record on the list of "Ayn Alteena" Distributed by President Nabih Berri at the national dialogue table?
Russian mind is occupied by three basic files in Lebanon and who could deal with them firmly , daring , and cleverness is the skill of the specifications correspondent , which is : The gas exploration, The displaced Syrians, and above all, The engaging in the fight against terrorism, incidentally the issue of armament.
Gas is the lung that Russian economy breathes from , so it is almost the only country in the world that the calendar of holidaies have a «day for workers in the oil and gas industry». Apart from that the field of fuel and energy is the basis of the Russian economy, and perhaps one of the reasons for the advent of «Sukhoi» to our country, is to preven terrorists from cutting gas supply lines from Russia to the world by land and sea ... and here is speech goes long !
Accordingly, the nearer specifications should be available in the forthcoming President are «seriousness in turning Lebanon into an oil country, and go into the sea for the gas exploration, without forgeting that on a near miles a Russian warships anchored in the port of Tartus»!
and because the Syrian issue ahead of everything else in the priorities of Russian foreign policy , then the issue of the displaced must occupies the forthcoming President' ladder of priorities to work on the return of displaced Syrians to their country, to ease the burden on Lebanon on one hand, and not to convert those big slide Syrian estimated one-third of the population of Lebanon to a pressure card on the Syrian government, which described by the Russian leadership as partner.
And the basis for the specification remains in the President's method of approach to the fight against terrorism and his ability to push for drying «Daash» and what is like it in the swamp, before sealing its head.
This fight, which begins with the idea and does not end with the missile which the Russian side wishs that it does not remain the preserve of the American side in the Lebanese warehouses (here the talk goes long about Russian bitter experiences with the Lebanese side in the issue of armament).
In summary, one can say: «Russia did not name anyone to fill the Lebanese presidential blank until now, despite its openness to many figures, but they developed specifications for a President who dares to turn Lebanon to an oil country, and able to push the Syrians displaced to return to their country, and this needs the president who has the ability of the higher coordination with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad that the keys of the Syrian - Lebanese border are in his hand which the return home supposed to be through it.
And finally share President Vladimir Putin vision in the fight against terrorism and the eradication of «Daash» and what is like it in the accordance with the standards and provisions of international law, not to distance himself and Lebanon from the uprooting terrorism storm !
Accordingly ... This is the correspondent specifications of the forthcoming president according to the Russian standard . and who applies them takes a further step towards Baabda , but it is not enough to deliver him , because the way of Baabda do not pass into Moscow's specifications only, the forthcoming president of this small entity must wraps a full cycle around the earth before returning to the local stadium Combining as much as he can of votes in the ballot box.