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Beirut – “Al-Quds Al-Arabi”: Hours after Hezbollah Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah reduced the importance of border control and his call for coordination between the Lebanese and Syrian armies, the army leadership announced in a statement that “army units were confiscated on the northern and eastern Lebanese-Syrian borders and with different dates. Between 5/7/2020 and 05/14/2020, 10 tanks, 2 vans and loaded vans were seized with approximately 215,000 liters of diesel, and two trucks and 4 vans loaded with approximately 71 tons of flour, and arrested 25 people. ”The statement stated that” the army units are taking the necessary measures to control the borders and prevent smuggling. through the illegal crossings, and that the detainees were transferred with the seizures to the pertinent judicial authorities. “
The issue of border smuggling attended the cabinet meeting that was held at the government house led by Prime Minister Hassan Diab, and the council decided to confiscate the trucks and tanks smuggled with their cargo, provided that the decision is issued by decree without the need to amend a law.
He regretted Nasrallah’s call for normalization with Damascus
Hezbollah Secretary-General’s positions on the smuggling issue were met with disapproval by activists in the March forces and a rejection of any normalization with the Syrian regime, and some of them stated that “whoever wants normalization with Bashar Al-Assad go to him and sit on his lap and print kisses of work on his cheeks. ” Lebanese Forces party leader Samir Geagea tweeted via Twitter, criticizing the decisions of the Supreme Defense Council, calling them “disappointing”, saying: “This is something we have heard over and over in the past and it has not yielded any practical results on the ground. ” He believed that “what resulted from the Supreme Defense Council meeting means” no decision “and further delay, which in practice means continuing to lose hundreds of millions of dollars annually due to smuggling operations taking place in a time when we are begging from abroad for a handful of dollars. ” He stressed: “All that is required is a clear and decisive political decision by the Lebanese army government, internal security forces and all security forces concerned with the closure of illegal and illegal crossings between Lebanon and Syria.” Representative Nadim al-Jumayyil also responded to Nasrallah’s refusal to deploy international forces on the border. He said: “Nasrallah is demonizing any decision that serves Lebanon and considers it detrimental to its interest.” No, sir, there is no salvation or resurrection before solving the problem of weapons that dominate the state and its sovereignty. He added: “Resolutions 1559 and 1701 serve the interest of Lebanon, whether you like it or not, even if you consider that they attack you while you are free! We say Lebanon first, and you say Iran first. “
Speaking to the former force coordinator on March 14, Faris Saeed commented on the army’s statement on the seizure of trucks at the border, saying: “All the commendable efforts of the army on the border with Syria do not eliminate the need to support him with international forces in accordance with the relevant resolutions. “
In an attempt to stop waste in the power sector, which costs the state annual losses of $ 2 billion, the Cabinet reportedly approved a memorandum of understanding with companies seeking to establish power plants in Lebanon. “We agreed on a memorandum of understanding with the companies, with some amendments, with all the details of the agreement and the mutual terms,” said Energy Minister Raymond Roma. He added: “The companies are ready to cooperate, and the memoranda of understanding were unified with an approved memorandum and China expressed its desire for financing.” Information Minister Manal Abdel Samad explained that the work will begin in the first stage in Zahrani and then in Deir Ammar.
Abd al-Samad said after the session that “the prime minister stressed that we must accompany the negotiations with the International Monetary Fund internally and stressed the follow-up to the investigations into speculation on the national currency,” calling for “the disclosure of all the names of those involved, as well as the fraudulent file of fraud. ” And he said: “We are eager to reveal the truth without interfering, and we will not accept coercion or malice.”
To that, the scenes of complete closure and freedom of the streets of the movement returned to Beirut and the Lebanese regions on the first day of the renewal of public mobilization for a period of four days, which ended next Monday morning, after that the number of infections with the Corona virus increased again, and the army, the security forces and the municipal police carried out patrols to control the violations and guarantee that On the good implementation of the decision.
These measures coincide with Lebanon’s willingness to receive the third batch of Lebanese-carrying planes from abroad in light of fears that returnees will not adhere to home quarantine procedures, as happened with several citizens who broadcast the infection to others, while it was reported that 4 Lebanese from Africa falsified the results of PCR controls so that they can return to Lebanon.
