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Monday, September 21, 2020
From the Liveblog of
Monday, September 21, 2020
Lebanon PM-designate urges parties to help form overdue cabinet
Lebanon’s prime minister-designate Mustapha Adib urges competing political forces to step up and help him form a desperately needed independent government to save the crisis-hit country.
Adib is under pressure to form a fresh cabinet line-up as soon as possible so the new government can launch a raft of reforms required to unlock billions of dollars in foreign aid.
Lebanon was mired in its worst economic crisis in decades and battling the novel coronavirus pandemic, even before one of the world’s biggest non-nuclear explosions at the Beirut port last month.
In this photo released by Lebanon’s official government photographer Dalati Nohra, Prime Minister-Designate Mustapha Adib speaks with journalists after his meeting with Lebanese President Michel Aoun, at the presidential palace, in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon, September 14, 2020. (Dalati Nohra via AP)
“Any further delay will exacerbate and deepen the crisis,” Adib says in a statement.
— AP
