(Update) Mikati broaches situation with US Ambassador, briefed by Health Minister on outcome of his talks with French officials, meets Audit Bureau delegation

(Update) Mikati broaches situation with US Ambassador, briefed by Health Minister on outcome of his talks with French officials, meets Audit Bureau delegation

NNA – Grand Serail visitors on Tuesday quoted Caretaker Prime Minister, Najib Mikati, as saying that "the measure taken today by the Public Prosecutor at the Court of Cassation, Judge Ghassan Oueidat, in terms of organizing the mechanism for applying the provisions of the amended bank secrecy law, constitutes an essential step to remedy the judicial defect which necessitated him to address his letter to the Minister of the Interior in an attempt to stop a dangerous path in using the judiciary and the law for political ends. The intention was never to protect anyone nor to secure cover for anyone's violations.”

Grand Serail visitors also indicated: "The Prime Minister hopes that Judge Oueidat's step to be the beginning of the path towards the regularity of judicial work within the applicable legal frameworks and principles in order to preserve the good course of justice.

The Prime Minister renewed, according to his visitors, the call for the implementation of the law, and for the judiciary to say its word in all files, affirming once again "his respect for the principle of separation of powers, their balance and cooperation."

On the other hand, Premier Mikati received at the Grand Serail US Ambassador to Lebanon, Dorothy