4 people break into a bank to get their deposit back

Aoun: There is no partnership with Israel in oil and gas exploration

Aoun during his meeting with officials at the presidential palace in Baabda.

Reuters

The Lebanese President, Michel Aoun, affirmed, yesterday, "to guarantee Lebanon's rights to its waters and to provide the appropriate conditions to start exploration operations in the oil and gas fields specified in the exclusive economic zone in which the French company Total is supposed to start," stressing that "there will be no partnership with The Israeli side,” while four people stormed a bank in Beirut to retrieve their deposit.

Aoun expressed his hope that the start of oil exploration in the southern water fields would be a positive start that would help the Lebanese economy to rise again after the decline that occurred during the past years.

Aoun said, during his meeting with the Director of Africa and the Middle East at the French Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs, Anne Giegan, that “Lebanon will determine its position on the content of the written offer made by the American mediator in the indirect negotiations to demarcate the southern maritime borders, in consultation with the presidents of Parliament and the government and in light of the Observations of the technical committee formed for this purpose.

Aoun expressed his hope that "the presidential elections will take place within the specified constitutional deadline."

He stressed that "the criminal audit of the accounts of the Banque du Liban is continuing and is part of the anti-corruption process."

In turn, Jigan stressed "the importance of holding the presidential elections on their constitutional date in order to prevent any vacuum at the presidential level, and to implement reforms and an agreement with the International Monetary Fund."

This comes at a time when four people stormed the Bank of Lebanon and the Diaspora in the southern suburbs of Beirut and got their deposit ($11,000) and left before the army arrived.

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