Cabinet agrees in principle to support Lebanese exports to Jordan and GCC

The Cabinet at its regular meeting held yesterday and presided by Prime Minister Tamam Salam, approved in principle a proposal to provide financial support to Lebanese exports that are destined to Jordan and the Gulf countries. The government commissioned the Investment Development Authority of Lebanon IDAL to review ways to shore up the cost of export of agricultural and industrial production, in cooperation with the ministries of agriculture, industry and transport, and to submit a study for discussion at the next meeting of the Council of Ministers.

In the same context, PM Salam received Agriculture Minister Akram Chehayeb accompanied by a delegation of deputies from the North and the Bekaa, in the presence of IDAL chief and general director, Nabil Itani, and discussed with them ways of marketing and selling agricultural produce. Following the meeting, MP Kazem El Khair made a statement in which he warned of a real disaster cropping up in the coming four months if the present crisis is not quickly resolved and an alternative shipping route is adopted. Thus, he referred to an earlier proposed consisting of resorting to RO-RO carrier vessels as a viable alternative.

Regarding the trucks which were stranded at the Nassib Syrian-Jordanian crossing the head of the Higher Relief Council, Major General Muhamad Khayr, personally oversaw yesterday the unloading of the trucks which have arrived at the port of Tripoli in the north, promising to assist in completing this matter in 24 hours.

(Source: An Nahar, Al Mustaqbal, Al Diyar, May 15, 2015)