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According to Al-Jadeed Channel, the criminal investigator in the case of the explosion of Beirut port, Judge Bitar, considered there was no legal value for the responding of the Council of Ministers regarding his incompetence to question the re-examination of the re-resident government, Hassan Diab. He issued a note against him and set a date of September 20th for hearing.
In a statement, the General Directorate of Oil announced that “in accordance with the statement issued this morning, oil companies, fuel stations and distributors will sell their stock on the basis of table 11/8/2021, until their stock has been depleted.”
Speaker Nabih Berri, responded to MP Jabran Basil, in an intervention during the session of the House of Representatives, saying, “What is anyone threatening the Parliament .” Who wants to resign, let’s get on. I do not accept any threat to the House of Assembly at all.”
Al-Jadeed channel reported that “a controversy between Berri and Basil during the meeting, where Bassil said: “Non’t taking a decision, position or action at the end of this meeting means that the Council abandoned its role and put us before the decision to resign”
Caretaker Prime Minister Hassan Diab asked Foreign Minister Zina Akar to instruct the Lebanese delegate to the United Nations, Amal Mudallali, to file an urgent complaint against the Israeli enemy, which violated Lebanese sovereignty, endangered the safety of civil aviation, and threatened the lives of civilian passengers. Lebanese and foreigners, directly at risk. Diab stressed that the Israeli enemy’s continued violation of the Lebanese sovereignty constitutes a direct threat to UN Resolution 1701.
Diab called on the United Nations and the international community to condemn Israeli aggression and take measures that preserve Lebanese sovereignty and protect UN Resolution 1701.
The Acting General Director of Civil Aviation, Fadi Al-Hassan, confirmed that “the information that talked about the suspension of air traffic at Beirut International Airport is not true.”
The representative of fuel distributors in Lebanon, Fadi Abu Chakra, attributed the cause of the fuel crisis, and Coral’s intention, among several other companies, to close its stations in all Lebanon as of today, to “the inability of the ships that have been waiting since Almost a month at sea, and it cannot empty the quantities of imported fuel, as a result of the dispute over the issue of opening credits between the “Banque du Liban,” which seeks to implement the decision to lift subsidies on fuel, and therefore the new price, and the government through the Ministry of Energy and Water Which is still rejecting, and wants to keep things according to the current situation.”