Wide external aid fan is waiting for Lebanon

Financial sources revealed that the discussions in which he started with international levels highlighted promising positives in the possibility of forming a wide external aid fan for Lebanon in the next stage.

The sources indicated to Al -Gomhoria to the strong French presence on the line of providing aid to Lebanon – and as is well known in this context that French President Emmanuel Macron is in the process of holding an international conference to mobilize support for Lebanon – she pointed to a noticeable softness that began to appear since the beginning of the presidential era in dealing with international financial institutions with Lebanon, where the discussions that took place and taking place with senior officials in these institutions confirmed the existence of a clear desire and willingness She has to help Lebanon.

In response to a question about whether this aid is conditional, the sources said: “International institutions in particular, and the countries of the abroad in general are not“ Caritas ”, there are definitely conditions related to reforms and combating corruption, and the reformist direction that the Lebanese state affirmed that it will adopt it, sent an external message encouraging in this field.

The sources revealed, “The World Bank is preparing for a aid program for Lebanon, and the beginning of this program will be in what the Finance Minister Yassin Jaber announced a tendency at the World Bank to establish a fund with about one billion dollars to support Lebanon in the field of reconstruction, as well as parallel aid in other fields. While the financial preparations are taking place to sign a new agreement with the International Monetary Fund in the foreseeable term, through a high -level delegation from the IMF, is expected to visit Lebanon soon.

The sources pointed out that «the new agreement intended to be signed, is not an alternative to the agreement of the framework signed between Lebanon and the monetary fund three years ago by about 3 billion dollars, which was delayed in implementation and lost in internal political moods and moods, but rather that the conditions that prevailed in recent years, and the accompanying changes and transformations, imposed radical amendments to the agreement of the agreement, in a way that makes it accompanying the developments And the priorities of the next stage, and replaced the intuitive requirements of the fund.