The outgoing cabinet of Lebanese Prime Minister Nayib Mikati has given the ‘green light’ Wednesday to two aid packages to pay for two diesel ships and cover the cost of maintaining power plants in the context of the country’s energy crisis.
Specifically, the Council of Ministers has approved $62 million, announced at the end of 2022, to unload 66,000 tons of diesel from two ships that arrived in December. The fuel is destined for two power plants, one in the north and one in the south, the newspaper ‘L’Orient-Le Jour’ has reported.
On the other hand, the cabinet has also given the ‘green light’ to $54 million to cover the maintenance costs of the two power plants named above. Mikati has defended that without this measure they would have arrived «at the end of the week without any oil».
Both initiatives were approved by the Council of Ministers despite the boycott by the ministers of the Free Patriotic Movement, including Walid Fayad, head of the energy portfolio.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
