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Finance Minister distributes aid to 13 municipalities and warns from government paralysis

16-6-2015

The Finance Minister Ali Hassan Khalil distributed financial aid to some 13 municipalities as part of the current program adopted by Regie ‘Libanaise des Tabacs et Tombacs’ aiming at supporting tobacco growing localities through funding to local development projects. An event was held for this purpose at the Finance Ministry in the presence of Regie Director General Nassif Siqlawi, Regie managers and concerned mayors. Siqlawi pointed out that the Company has been funding for the second consecutive year a series of development initiatives in the South, North and Bekaa regions and that most of these development projects are now operational. He added that the Regie aims through its financial aid to contribute to sustainable development in towns and villages that cultivate tobacco. For his part, Minister Khalil reiterated his Ministry’s preparedness to help in provision of assistance to the agricultural sector particularly in order to cover the extra transport cost of exports by sea and air incurred as a result of the closure of land borders between Jordan and Syria. However, Khalil expressed grave concern over the state of general paralysis engulfing the country at all levels, and particularly hitting the role of the government. (Al Diyar, 16 June 2015)

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