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Khalil Slams Bassil over Reported Budget Warning

Finance Minister Ali Hassan Khalil on Tuesday lashed out at "incitement," after media reports attributed a state budget-related warning to Free Patriotic Movement chief MP Jebran Bassil.

"Bassil will not accept the exclusion of the Road of the Saints and the Jounieh port from the 2019 budget, or else no other project will be executed in the country," the reports said.

Khalil hit back swiftly via Twitter, warning that "the incitement machine is trying to stir a baseless sedition."

"The Road of the Saints project and the Jounieh port are at the heart of the budget and no funds earmarked for them have been dropped," he said.

"The funds of any other project have not been dropped and those seeking illusionary victories must check the budget and its numbers to realize thei r mistake," Khalil went on to say.

Source: Naharnet


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