黎巴嫩总理纳瓦夫·萨拉姆周三表示，除非有关战争、和平和国家安全的重要决策完全由国家机构来作出，否则该国的主权就无法得到真正实现。
Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said Wednesday that the country’s sovereignty could not be complete unless decisions on war, peace and national security were placed exclusively in the hands of state institutions.
萨拉姆是在贝鲁特国家图书馆举行的纪念黎巴嫩宪法颁布100周年的展览开幕式上作出上述讲话的。他强调必须完成《泰夫协议》的落实工作，并继续推进国家机构的建设进程。
Salam made the remarks at the opening of an exhibition marking the 100th anniversary of Lebanon’s Constitution at the National Library in Beirut. He stressed the need to complete the implementation of the Taif Agreement and continue the process of building state institutions.
萨拉姆指出，《泰夫协议》明确指出黎巴嫩是“所有公民的最终家园”——无论这些公民的民族背景或宗教信仰如何——同时黎巴嫩的政治体制是一种“民主议会制”，其核心原则是权力之间的分立、平衡与合作。他还表示，该协议将一些关键原则纳入了宪法序言中，这些原则如今已成为黎巴嫩国家本质的组成部分。
Salam said the Taif Agreement affirmed that Lebanon is “a final homeland for all its citizens, Arab in identity and affiliation,” and that its system is a “democratic parliamentary” one based on the separation, balance and cooperation of powers. He added that the agreement introduced key principles into the preamble of the Constitution that have since become part of the very definition of the Lebanese state.
萨拉姆认为，最重要的是，《泰夫协议》为国家的建设进程制定了明确的路线图。根据该协议，“消除政治教派主义是黎巴嫩的一项根本性国家目标”，并且需要通过分阶段计划来实现这一目标。
But the most important aspect, he said, was that Taif established a road map for completing the process of state-building. The agreement states that “abolishing political sectarianism is a fundamental national objective” and calls for achieving it through a phased plan, Salam said.
他强调：“如果存在超出人民代表机构之外的权力来源，那么所谓的‘人民主权’就毫无意义；如果法律不能适用于所有人，那么‘法治’也就无从谈起。”他还补充说：“如果像战争、和平和国家安全这样的重大决策不是由宪法规定的国家机构来作出的，那么国家的主权也就无法得到完全保障。”
“There is no meaning to popular sovereignty if there are multiple sources of authority outside the institutions that represent the people, and there is no meaning to the rule of law if the law does not apply to everyone,” he said. “State sovereignty is not complete if sovereign decisions, such as decisions on war, peace and national security, are made outside its constitutional institutions,” he added.
《泰夫协议》于1989年在沙特阿拉伯的泰夫市由黎巴嫩各政治力量签署，该协议的签署在沙特阿拉伯及其他阿拉伯国家的支持下结束了黎巴嫩长达15年的内战。该协议重新分配了黎巴嫩各宗教社区之间的政治权力，旨在增强各社区的政治参与度。
The Taif Agreement was signed by Lebanese political forces in the Saudi city of Taif in 1989 under the sponsorship of Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries, ending Lebanon’s 15-year civil war. The agreement redistributed political powers among Lebanon’s religious communities in an effort to strengthen political participation.
该协议将总统的部分权力移交给了部长会议和议会，并确立了基督教徒与穆斯林在政治上的平等代表权。
It transferred some powers of the presidency to the Council of Ministers and Parliament and established equal political representation between Christians and Muslims.