Cabinet Convenes, Tackles Contracts Undertaken by CDR

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The cabinet held a meeting at the Grand Serail on Friday where it mainly discussed the projects undertaken by the Council for Development and Reconstruction in various Lebanese areas.

The cabinet which was chaired by PM Tammam Salam “asked the CDR to prepare, within a month, an analytical study of the financial figures of the projects that it has been asked by the state to implement,” said Information Minister Ramzi Jreij after the meeting.

He also said that the cabinet has scheduled two sessions next week on Tuesday and Thursday.

“It also demanded that all the ministries provide the CDR with information on the developmental projects they are carrying out,” added Jreij.

After the meeting, Labor Minister Sejaan Qazzi commented: “There is a big share of the projects in Mount Lebanon but with little financial cost.”

Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil criticized the bulk of projects tasked to the CDR, he said: “There is an imbalance in the distribution of projects. It is inconceivable that %81 of them are carried by one party.”

Ahead of the meeting LBCI said that Bassil joined the gatherers at the cabinet with plans to discuss the "unbalanced distribution of developmental projects,” in several areas around Lebanon.

In reference to the trash management file and the landfills that were established to end the crisis, Health Minister Wael Abou Faour said: “We have presented to Salam the flaws in the Costa Brava landfill tender. We will not accept squandering of public funds,”

For his part, Education Minister Elias Bou Saab said: “We will be asking who is deciding that certain projects are put into implementation and who is delaying other ones.”

Minister of Industry Hussein Hajj Hassan stated that the “oil and gas file will not be tackled today, but we support the adoption of the decrees related to it as soon as possible.”

Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq said: “I will put forward for discussion the trash management file.”

Before the meeting, Qazzi, who was asked by his Kataeb party to submit his resignation from the cabinet, said: “I will participate in the meeting because it is time to shoulder responsibilities and I will represent the Christians the Maronites and even the Kataeb party.”

Qazzi was expelled from the Kataeb party early this week after he rejected to abide by the party's decision on resigning from Salam's government.

SourceNaharnet
Comments 1
Missing humble 24 June 2016, 17:08

Useless decision...