Hariri Vows to Reduce Youth Emigration, Ensure Jobs for Them
Mustaqbal Movement leader Rafik Hariri on Thursday said he would seek to reduce the emigration of young men and vowed to ensure jobs for them.
"I will exert every effort in order to maintain peace in Lebanon and provide job opportunities for young people to reduce the emigration of talented people," Hariri said during the inauguration of Rafik Hariri College of Nursing at the American University of Beirut.
He said efforts undertaken by ex-Premier Rafik Hariri in the field of culture had caused a "revolution" in Lebanon.
"I will exert all efforts to continue my father”s march," Hariri pledged.
He hailed his father”s goal which aimed at reviving the economy and strengthening democracy.
Hariri believed that a massive rally of hundreds of thousands of people at Freedom Square in downtown Beirut on Feb. 14 "was the guarantee of our independence and sovereignty."