Hariri Congratulates Aoun, Berri on CEDRE 'Success'
Prime Minister Saad Hariri contacted President Michel Aoun and Speaker Nabih Berri from Paris, and “congratulated” them on the “success” of the CEDRE conference that concluded Friday raising billions of dollars aimed at averting an economic fallout in Lebanon, Hariri's media office said.
Hariri stressed that the success of the donor conference is the result of “political consensus in Lebanon and a new proof of what consensus can achieve for Lebanese citizens when there is a will to prioritize Lebanon and its interests,” the Premier's office quoted him as telling Berri and Aoun.
International donors pledged $11 billion in loans and grants on Friday to help debt-ridden Lebanon at a conference in Paris that also sought to ensure the money is well spent in a country hit hard by the Syrian war next door.
In total, donors committed $10.2 billion in loans and $860 million in gifts, France's ambassador to Lebanon Bruno Foucher said on Twitter.
Source: Naharnet, Associated Press
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