Miqati to Call for Cabinet Session as Soon as ‘Problem is Resolved’

Prime Minister Najib Miqati said on Wednesday that the cabinet crisis which erupted earlier in the month hasn’t been resolved yet.

“The cabinet’s (work) is ongoing and there is no problem in the government,” Miqati said after holding talks with Speaker Nabih Berri in Ain el-Tineh.

Asked by reporters when he would call for a session, he said: “When the issue is resolved, we would immediately call for a meeting.”

But “the problem hasn’t been solved yet,” he stressed.

Cabinet sessions were suspended on Feb. 1 after Miqati accused ministers loyal to Free Patriotic Movement leader Michel Aoun of obstructing the government’s work.

Miqati has stressed he would not make any compromises and conditioned the resumption of sessions on reassurances by the ministers that they would be productive.

The prime minister told the reporters in Ain el-Tineh that he visited Berri to inform him about his latest official visit to Paris where he met with top French officials, including President Nicolas Sarkozy.

Miqati said he informed Berri about “some issues that were discussed in Paris.”