Lebanon’s leader Hariri urges revival of French plan

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Lebanon’s former Prime Minister, leading Sunni Muslim politician, Saad al-Hariri, called for the restoration of a French plan to lift the nation out of its worst financial crisis since its 1975-1990 civil war.

“I call on political parties to think well so as not to waste this chance…French President Macron’s initiative still stands and we can still enact it,” Hariri said in a TV interview late on Thursday. “If we let it fail, it would be a crime.”

Hariri added that he would only return as prime minister – a post he has already held three times – if there was agreement by Lebanon’s fractious parties on securing an International Monetary Fund deal.

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