Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati on Saturday lamented that the Lebanese “have not helped each other.”

“We need dialogue. If the Lebanese helped each other, they would have been able to pick a president,” Mikati said in an interview with the Al-Arabiya and the Al-Hadath TV networks following his participation in the Jeddah Arab Summit.

“I call on the Arab brothers to help Lebanon establish domestic dialogue. Lebanon needs economic support from its Arab brothers,” Mikati added.

“If Lebanon had a president, its situation would have been much better,” the premier said.

 “We do not need a new Taif Agreement, we need to continue the implementation of the ‘old Taif’. Lebanon has been and is still ill and it needs the Arab brothers to recover," he added.

Mikati also pointed out that “any political agreement in the region will necessarily reflect on Lebanon.”