Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati chaired a meeting of the “Ministerial Committee charged with addressing the repercussions of the financial crisis on the functioning of the public utility” at the Grand Serail. The Ministers of Education and Higher Education, Judge Abbas Al-Halabi, Justice Judge Henry El-Khoury, Finance Minister Youssef Khalil, State for Administrative Development Najla Riachi, Social Affairs Hector Hajjar, Industry George Boushekian, Communications Johnny Corm, Interior and Municipalities Judge Bassam Mollawi, Labor Mustafa Bayram, Public Works and Transport Ali Hamiyah, the President of the Civil Service Council, Nasreen Mashmoushi, and the Secretary-General of the Council of Ministers, Judge Mahmoud Makiya.
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After the meeting, Minister Hamieh said: “The topic of the meeting today is related to public sector salaries, because the ministerial committee had previously taken a decision to increase salaries for a period of two months, and of course, President Mikati, with a proactive process from him before the end of September, will call for intensive meetings to draw a map for the end of the year in terms of the way Providing revenues, and that the Ministry of Finance will explain, at the meeting called by President Mikati, next Monday, the details of supplying the public treasury with revenues, and it will detail what are the revenues in the public treasury, and on the basis of which it approves the methodology and the new vision until the end of 2022, there is no state without public sector employees, and therefore The current situation in public administrations is not good, and the main concern is to provide a decent income for public sector employees for the continuation of the state’s work.”
In response to a question regarding the investigations carried out by the Ministry of Works in the matter of the factory road, he said: “This issue has been a subject of great controversy in the media, and of course the family is saddened by the traffic accident like all other Lebanese families.
There are 3 basic pillars that are a major factor in a traffic accident, the first pillar being the roads, the second pillar being the driver, and the third pillar being the car.
He added: All roads in Lebanon have problems and the budget of the Ministry of Public Works amounts to 39 billion pounds, or regarding one million dollars, but there are priorities for public safety.
The factory road, at first glance, is not a road, and we can call it the road of death. Measures were taken last Monday to find out where this file is, and like all Lebanese ministries, the Ministry of Public Works and Transport did not study the file, did not design a solution for traffic safety, did not commit, did not supervise, and did not receive. Do I stand idly by all the traffic accidents that happen in Lebanon? At least, let me ease it and people’s pain, and therefore the initial action I took was to investigate that road, and other roads will follow, and this issue I will take to the end, and I did not and will not cover anyone, and let the investigation take its course. And I took the scientific and legal path by forming a committee to inspect the works. There is a legal article that authorizes the Ministry of Works to do so, and therefore this topic has been opened and will not be closed, and my main concern is the application of the law and alleviating people’s pain. I cannot say, “I am not in the palace except from yesterday followingnoon.”
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Prime Minister Mikati met with the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Abdullah Bu Habib, and discussed with him the affairs of the ministry.
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And he met with the Head of the Tenders Department, Jean Al-Aliyah, who announced following the meeting: “His Excellency President Mikati was briefed on the implementation path of the Public Procurement Law, which work began on July 29, and the administrations and municipalities responded to it, and the difficulties in implementing it seemed much less than before, and the administrations began to understand this law. Gradually, this matter is in the interest of the country, transparency and rationalization of public deals.
In response to a question regarding the percentage of ministries applying the Public Procurement Law, he pointed out that “there is no need today to enter into the percentage process, as there are some departments that have not yet implemented it, but in the end everyone must work on its basis.”
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President Mikati received the head of the Human Rights Committee, MP Michel Moussa, who announced following the meeting that “the Parliamentary Human Rights Committee will hold a meeting tomorrow, and in preparation for this meeting, it discussed with the President the issue of prisons and the living and health conditions of prisoners, in addition to the issue of prison overcrowding, which is chronic, but the urgent matter today is The living and health matters of the prisoners and the provision of the necessary capabilities in order to give them this obvious and fundamental right.
He added, “We have called on international bodies and civil society to help in this matter, and there was a response from the President, and we will follow up on these matters and, God willing, we will reach a result.”
In response to a question, he said: “The Ministers of Justice and Interior will participate in the meeting tomorrow, and there are two important issues that will be discussed, namely places, building new prisons, or taking certain unused state headquarters in order to reduce overcrowding in prisons, speed up trials and decide cases imposed on them. It is very high, so it is necessary to expedite the trials and decide these issues.
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Bahia Hariri
President Mikati met with former MP Bahia Hariri.
