Official Statement In the coming days, we will announce the formation of the Transitional Council of Mount Lebanon. This council seeks to defend and protect the rights of the 11 million Maronites around the world, and to organise their return to their homeland and their role in shaping the future of their historical land. What is unfolding is a historic moment, something that has not happened since the fall of the Maronite nation after the Mamluk invasion of Mount Lebanon. The Maronite nation is no longer a dream. It is a project in the making.