The Minister of Public Works and Transport, Ali Hamiyah, said via Twitter, that France will provide Lebanon with “successive numbers of buses, the first of which are 50, and this donation is one of the episodes of the integrated transport plan on all Lebanese territory.”
His media office had announced that the French Minister of Transport would sign a “memorandum of understanding regarding France’s donation of buses to the Lebanese Republic, under the patronage of Prime Minister Najib Mikati. Hamiyah and Djibari will also attend the signing ceremony of an agreement to manage, operate and maintain a container terminal at the Port of Beirut between the Beirut Port Authority and Investment Management Committee and CMA CGM, sponsored by Mikati.
As for the French embassy in Beirut, it distributed a statement stating that “the French minister, delegated to the Ministry of Environmental Transformation in charge of transportation, Jean-Baptiste Djibari, is visiting Lebanon on the tenth of this month. He will sign a memorandum of understanding on France’s provision of 50 buses to Lebanon (…) and the minister will also visit the port of Beirut and will have a meeting with a number of civil society and private sector figures in Lebanon, who are engaged in work for the advancement and reconstruction of their country.