Peace is preparing to visit Damascus soon, and the government continues to discuss the banking project

Prime Minister Nawaf Salam is expected to visit Damascus during the next few days.
Al -Sarai sources pointed out that the coordination of the visit takes place between the two foreign ministries of the two countries, knowing that the agenda will deal with the correction of historical weights of the relationship and put it in its right quorum, because the two countries have an opportunity to benefit from to correct relations on the basis of preserving the sovereignty of the two countries and not to interfere in each other’s affairs and launch the path of cooperation in various fields, especially borders control, prevent smuggling, clashes, and reaching a path The demarcation of the borders under the auspices of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, according to what came in the “Call of the Nation”.

Today, the Council of Ministers will complete the discussion of the bank reform project, amid estimates of its approval after making some amendments to its basic text, which the government will be prepared as a prominent financial and banking achievement after its referral draft amendments to the banking confidentiality law to the House of Representatives.
It is known that the government put the project of reforming banks on a fierce fire to pass it in anticipation of the participation of the Lebanese delegation in the Spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank in Washington in the last third of this April, which will constitute a Lebanese commitment message to move forward in the path of financial structural and economic reforms.
Al -Nahar wrote: The ministerial and official circles concerned in full frankness about the transformation of reforms are a forced condition of a comprehensive international status that Lebanese officials regularly hear from all other external delegates and not only from the American delegate to Lebanon Morgan Ortigos, similar to what she quoted on her last visit to Beirut. Therefore, the project to reform banking and others will be approved successively from projects in light of Lebanon under the microscope of the American and international pressure in terms of the side related to the reforms, while the levels of international pressure on Lebanon differ according to these circles in the file of completing the state’s sovereignty of its authority and removing the armed groups, foremost of which is Hezbollah.
The “Call of the National” wrote: The basic item on the table is the draft law reforming the banking sector, which will be subject to discussion between the ministers, noting that the visit of Ortigos gave a strong payment to the government and its reformist plan, and that the statement issued yesterday confirms this, according to the same sources, which added that there is a great American support for the plan that the government is working on, and that the focus is on the parliament that must accompany projects These laws approve them.
And the brigade wrote: The Lebanese delegation leaves the International Monetary Fund meetings on April 21, that is, after two weeks, and the delegation includes the two ministers Yassin Jaber (Minister of Finance) and Amer Al -Bassat (Minister of Economy) and the ruler of Lebanon Bank Karim Saeed, to discuss the representatives of the fund in the possible loan for Lebanon.
On the eve of his travel, sources close to the Money Committee said that with its confirmation of “the principle of positive cooperation with the IMF, but it is waiting for the bit to increase Lebanon’s contribution to the fund by $ 423 million, so that it can hear from Minister Jaber the financial impact on the treasury, and how to pay, according to the government’s priorities for reform and rescue.