Mikati stresses economic and financial situation requires cooperation of all sides, meets Russian ambassador, Ministers of Social Affairs and Telecommunications

Mikati stresses economic and financial situation requires cooperation of all sides, meets Russian ambassador, Ministers of Social Affairs and Telecommunications

NNA - Prime Minister, Najib Miqati, on Wednesday stressed that the stifling economic, financial and social conditions require that all cooperate in order to activate the government's work to carry out the required solutions and to cooperate with Parliament to approve the basic steps within the framework of cooperation with the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and other concerned international bodies.

"The inter-ministerial meetings and workshops are  being held to complete the required files, run the administration wheel, and put things on the correct treatment track, but the basis remains in resuming the sessions of the Council of Ministers, starting with the steps required to resolve the emerging dispute with the Gulf states," Mikati said.

On the other hand, Premier Mikati met with a wide delegation representing trade associations, committees and unions from the various Lebanese regions, where they discussed the current conditions of the trade sector in the country.

Mikati also met with a delegation of the Lebanese Order of Physicians in Beirut and the North, including Head of the Order of Physicians in Beirut, Charaf Abou Charaf, and head of the Doctors' Syndicate in North Lebanon, Dr. Salim Abi Saleh.

The meeting took stock of the current conditions and challenges facing the medical