Thursday, July 21, 2011

Miqati 'on probation'

"... The French Embassy in Lebanon denied Thursday reports that Paris had frozen a deal to supply the Lebanese Army with missiles. “So far no decision has been taken and I am not sure it will go in that direction. There is some debate. What’s written in Al-Hayat reflects only one side of what is being discussed. The decision has not been made,” French Embassy spokesperson Anne Charlotte Dommartin told The Daily Star.
Quoting French sources, pan-Arab daily Al-Hayat reported Thursday that an agreement to send missiles to the army, hammered out under the government of former Prime Minister Saad Hariri, had been put on ice while Paris monitors the work of the new Hezbollah-dominated Cabinet of Prime Minister Najib Mikati. ..."

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