Kanaan Meets Billingslea: No New Sanctions on Lebanese Officials

Head of the Finance and Budget Committee MP Ibrahim Kanaan assured from Washington after meeting with Marshall Billingslea, the U.S. Treasury’s assistant secretary on terror financing, that “no new sanctions on Lebanese officials,” the National News Agency reported on Friday.

“There are no new sanctions slapped at Lebanese officials. Lebanon’s stability is a priority,” NNA quoted Kanaan as saying after the meeting.

Kanaan and a Lebanese delegation has been in Washington since last week to meet with US officials at the invitation of the World Bank and to participate in a financial and economic conference.

Kanaan and head of the Foreign affairs Parliamentary Committee MP Yassin Jaber and Adviser to Parliament Speaker Ali Hamdan held several meetings in Washington, the latest was with Billingslea.