DAILY SCOPE: Oil Exploration File on the Right Path, Erdogan Statements on Naturalization Dangerous!

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AN-NAHAR:

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AL-AKHBAR:

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AL-BINAA:

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AL-JOMHOURIA:

"Oil First"...After al-Fitr Holiday

AL-LIWAA:

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Lebanese newspapers on Monday discussed the offshore oil exploration file, reporting that the executive decrees for the project will be issued within a period of two weeks. This comes after a few rounds of licensing for gas and oil exploration had been postponed because of political dispute.

Also, newspapers touched on the dispute inside the Future party, as well as the talk on a Turkish attempt to naturalize Syrian refugees.

AS-SAFIR: Oil Exploration File on the Right Path

Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri confirmed to As-Safir newspaper on Monday that the oil exploration file has been put on the right path, and that it will be transferred to the Ministerial Committee and the Parliament respectively for approval.

Some sides in the country had said that the meeting between Head of the Free Patriotic Movement Gen. Michel Aoun and Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri means ignoring all other political parties. Berri questioned such rhetoric, and pointed out that the meeting with the FPM took place upon request of the Lebanese Prime Minister Tammam Salam, who had demanded a political understanding on the oil decrees before the issue is discussed in the Ministerial Council.

On the same note, Minister Mohammad Fneish told As-Safir that such an agreement on the oil exploration file would release pressure off Lebanon, and should be a step forward towards resolving the pending file.

"We are already late, but better late than never," Fneish told the newspaper adding "It is important that we make up for the time we lost and start to make use of our oil riches especially in light of the dire economic and financial situation in Lebanon."

It was reported late in 2015 that the Parliament's Energy Committee had discovered then that the interest of oil exploration companies has dropped to a large extent after they realized the Lebanese government was slow in adopting two important bills.

Sources had reported also that the companies have become uninterested especially because of the official mismanagement to the file. The disagreements were over the designation of blocks open for bidding and the terms of a draft exploration agreement.

AN-NAHAR: Erdogan's Statement on Naturalizing Syrian Refugees is dangerous

Minister of Social Affairs Rashid Derbas told An-Nahar newspaper that "the statement made by Recep Tayyip Erdogan is one of the worst indexes and is an alarming statement, which means that the Turkish government is adapting to the current situation."

Syrian refugees living in Turkey could eventually be granted Turkish citizenship, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has signaled, a plan that has sparked controversy.

"We are going to help our Syrian friends in offering them the chance, if they want it, to acquire Turkish nationality," Erdogan had said.

Derbas stressed that "What is happening is considered as very dangerous."

He noted that this comes as part of an international game, that aims at making people forget the massacres and crimes that were carried out in Syria but that is impossible.

"If the Syrian government has a clear plan on the safe return of the displaced Syrians then we are ready to facilitate things for them," the minister added.

Earlier in May, Labor Minister Sejaan Azzi affirmed his staunch opposition to the naturalization of Syrians in Lebanon, voicing fears that a delayed solution to Syria's conflict would prolong the refugee crisis in Lebanon.

also at the same time, Lebanese Prime Minister Tammam Salam stressed that Lebanon cannot, as per the Lebanese constitution, approve of or accept any act of integrating, naturalizing or even resettling Syrians.

AL-BINAA: Google Cash Used to Cover Up Illegal Internet Scandal

Lebanese Telecoms Minister Botrous Harb said that some sides are trying to divert attention from the real case in the illegal internet scandal through putting the ‘google cash' story in the spotlight, reported al-Binaa newspaper.

The minister added that a few perpetrators were charged with violation and are accused of abusing the telecoms network. According to Harb, the ministry uncovered that "some of the perpetrators had hacked international call lines through the digital like E1, which includes 100 lines that can carry out international calls through illegal means while the cost of the calls was transferred to the accounts of the Lebanese through refiling."

Harb vowed a few times to hunt down illegal internet providers, saying they were linked to "Israel" and thus posed a danger to Lebanon's national security.

Earlier in 2009, Lebanese security forces discovered a small internet server hidden in the town of al-Barouk in the Chouf district. The server was said to be an "Israeli" transmission station as it was wired to antennas aimed in the direction of "Israel".

The illegal network was also designed to steal international calls, and have a bandwidth of 40GB per second in WiFi network speed, which is equivalent to a third of the international capacity set by the Telecommunications Ministry.

Source: al-Ahed News