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U.S. Official Says 'No Aid Package' to Save Lebanon from Its 'Financial Mess'
[AnNahar] U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs David Schenker said Wednesday that attendees at a Gay Paree meeting on supporting Leb had agreed to give technical advice to Lebanese institutions but they won't provide the bailout that caretaker Prime Minister Saad Hariri...Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too.... had requested. Hariri had called on Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... , La Belle France,  ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire..., the United States, China, and Egypt to send funds to help Leb finance imports. "There's no aid package, there is no bailout," Schenker told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named. "Leb is not being saved from its financial mess." Schenker said the group is considering sending some humanitarian aid  to Leb to alleviate residents' suffering, though it was unclear when or how much.Schenker also insisted the U.S. is not laying out conditions for which groups can be included in the new government. "We have stuck until now with focusing on a set of principles, which is not who is the prime minister, not who is the minister of finance, not what party they're from, not what religion they're from -- but whether they are capable of reform," he told AP. Posted by: trailing wife 2019-12-12 |
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