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French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian announced Tuesday that Paris “lauds the Kuwaiti mediation for allowing Lebanon to overcome its crisis.”
“We stressed that we will continue to closely work for the sake of peace and security in the region,” La Drian added in Kuwait, following talks with his Kuwaiti counterpart Sheikh Ahmed al-Nasser Al-Sabah.
Full StoryPrime Minister Najib Miqati stressed Tuesday that the government will not resign before the parliamentary elections.
"One of the government's tasks today is to hold parliamentary elections, and my resignation might be a reason for disrupting the polls," Miqati said.
Full StoryThe head of Hizbullah’s parliamentary bloc, MP Mohammed Raad, claimed Tuesday that political rivals want to win the parliamentary majority “in order to secure laws that would allow them to normalize relations with the Israeli enemy.”
“All parties want to keep us away from the parliamentary action arena in order to implement their agendas,” Raad added, at a political rally in the southern town of Yohmor.
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Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib has noted that the latest improvement in the Lebanese-Gulf ties had started with the Kuwaiti paper that had been submitted to Lebanon.
Full StoryParliament Speaker Nabih Berri on Tuesday rejected a suggestion from Prime Minister Najib Miqati for turning an ongoing legislative session into a general discussion session that would involve a vote of confidence over the government’s policies.
“This is a legislative session and I have not received a request,” Berri told Miqati, who responded by saying that “the issue is being raised through the media.”
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The public prosecution on Monday reversed an order issued by Mt. Lebanon Prosecutor Judge Ghada Aoun that had barred six Lebanese banks from transferring and shipping money out of the country, LBCI TV said.
Full StoryCentral Bank Governor Riad Salameh issued Monday a decree that allows public sector workers to withdraw their entire salaries from the banks, with no restrictions.
The statement said that all banks must secure the needed liquidity to allow public sector workers to withdraw their entire monthly salaries, additional compensations, social assistance, and payments from their solidarity funds.
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The lawyer of Raja Salameh -- the detained brother of Central Bank chief Riad Salameh – filed Monday a request for the release of his client.
Full StoryHizbullah praised in a statement Monday an attack by a pair of Arab gunmen who killed two Israeli police officers and wounded four in central Israel, before they were killed by police.
Hizbullah considered the attack to be "the most important and practical response to the disgraceful normalization meetings with the enemy."
Full StoryUNIDO and UNDP have launched the “Lebanon Export Academy”, the first-of-its-kind in Lebanon, calling on Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in the agri-food and agriculture sector to apply to the academy.
The academy equips women and men-led MSMEs and Cooperatives in Lebanon with the required know-how and practical export skills to scale up their operations and foster their readiness to export.
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