Pierre Duquesne, the French inter-ministerial delegate to the Mediterranean, will meet on Friday with Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri, at the conclusion of a visit to Beirut, during which he followed up on the implementation of the CEDRE Conference decisions.
Sources informed of the meetings said that Duquesne was happy to see that the government’s policy statement included the main decisions taken at the Cedre Conference, with regards to the reforms in the electricity sector, debt and public deficit reduction and other necessary reforms.
The French diplomat also underlined the need to “accelerate the executive steps to put the Cedre Conference on track of implementation and translate the reform clauses contained in the ministerial statement”, in terms of combating squandering and corruption and reducing the deficit and the public debt.
Duquesne held a series of meetings on Thursday, with the economic team of President Michel Aoun, the European Union Group in Beirut and a group of the World Economic Organization for Sustainable Development, Hariri’s economic team and Minister of Economy Mansour Bteish.
On Friday, he met with Finance Minister Ali Hassan Khalil.
