Cabinet Delays Discussion of Public Sector Wages, Miqati Hails Arms Ship Seizure

The cabinet on Wednesday postponed the discussion of the issue of raising the minimum wage for public sector employees to a session that will be held on Thursday, as Prime Minister Najib Miqati hailed “the Lebanese army’s security achievement” of seizing an arms shipment in Lebanon’s territorial waters.

“The achievement is an implementation of the decisions of the political authority and an evidence on the Lebanese army’s readiness and its permanent vigilance that is aimed to preserve security and forbid any sort of trafficking operations,” Miqati said during the session.

On Friday the Lebanese navy intercepted three containers of heavy machineguns, artillery shells, rockets, rocket launchers and other explosives reportedly destined for Syria’s rebels on a ship originating in Libya.