POSITION PAPER ADVOCATING FOR THE PRESERVATION OF DEPOSITS AS PRECONDITION FOR A CYCLE OF ECONOMIC INTEGRITY




This position paper presents a comprehensive, rights-based roadmap for Lebanon’s financial and economic recovery, emphasizing the urgent need to protect depositors, unify the exchange rate, restore liquidity, and restructure public debt responsibly.

Rejecting past government plans that unfairly placed the burden of the crisis on depositors, it proposes practical and transparent reforms that adhere to the constitution, including transparent bank restructuring, fiscal discipline, improved tax collection, and suggested options for the mobilization of gold and foreign reserves. Economic recovery hinges on rebuilding trust, upholding the rule of law, and implementing reforms with or without an IMF agreement. Above all, no viable solution can exist without the full protection of depositors’ rights.