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Salam Discusses Government Formation Efforts with Hariri in France

Prime Minister-designate Tammam Salam held talks in Paris on Thursday with former Premier Saad Hariri, reported Voice of Lebanon radio (100.5).

It said that the discussions focused on the efforts to form a new government.

Hariri also threw a luncheon banquet in Salam's honor.

The PM-designate then traveled from the French capital to Geneva.

Since his appointment in April, Salam has been facing conditions and counter-conditions set by the rival March 8 and March 14 alliances over the formation of a new cabinet.

An Nahar daily on Monday reported that head of al-Mustaqbal parliamentary bloc ex-PM Fouad Saniora arrived in Paris on Sunday for talks with Hariri.


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