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Lebanon: PM-designate Meets President, Submits New Cabinet Line-up

Lebanon: PM-designate Meets President, Submits New Cabinet Line-up
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By Staff, Agencies

Lebanese Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri held a meeting Wednesday afternoon with President Michel Aoun at the Baabda Palace.

Hariri, who arrived in Baabda directly from a Cairo meeting with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, said he submitted to Aoun a draft line-up for "a 24-minister cabinet of specialists" according to "the French initiative and Speaker Nabih Berri's initiative."

"I hoped for an answer from the president by tomorrow in order to act accordingly," he told reporters after the meeting.

Hariri added that such a government would be "capable of reviving the country and halting the collapse."

"Now is the time of truth," Hariri went on to say.

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