Geagea Urges Nasrallah to Take First Step ‘East’

W460

Lebanese Forces chief Samir Geagea replied on Friday to Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, urging him to “initiate the first step” and request help for Lebanon’s ailing economy from countries in the East he said were ready to provide Lebanon with assistance.

“Based on Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah’s call to head east: Why doesn’t he take the first step and encourage the states he talked about (in his speech) to place a bank deposit not less than one billion dollars in the Central Bank of Lebanon,” said Geagea in a tweet.

Geagea said several Gulf countries, like Saudi Arabia, used to put huge deposits in Lebanese banks before Nasrallah’s “offensive” rhetoric.

The LF chief said Nasrallah should request countries in the East to inject deposits “like Gulf countries friends of Lebanon, Saudi Arabia for example, were doing before he pushed them away? Let’s see how serious is this option to go East?”

In a speech last week, Nasrallah said China and other countries in the East (like Russia) are ready to invest in Lebanon’s infrastructure to help the country steer out of its financial crisis.

Nasrallah argued that Lebanon’s ongoing negotiations with the IMF could take more than a year, and that China could offer more rapid funding.

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Comments 3
Missing arturo 19 June 2020, 16:02

Good job hitting the ball into Nasrallah's court. Now we'll see whether Nasrallah is all talk and no action or has substance to his claims.

Missing rabiosa 19 June 2020, 17:15

The Communist Chinese Government does not help any country unless it has it's own share and control what it invests in. Just ask some african countries who took the Chinese money and let Chines companies help with their infrastructure and see how they are doing now.

Oh I'd love to see Hizboz against the Chines communists go at each other should they do any investments and see who controls what.

Thumb lebnanfirst 19 June 2020, 23:36

Guys relax. As they say in America, “ain’t gonna happen”.
Nasrallah knows it, we know it, heck the whole world knows it.
Just ask the question, when push comes to shove will China risk economic relations with the USA for the sake of Lebanon or Nasrallah?