Middle East reporter at the @AP usually on Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq. RTs ≠ endorsement. 🎸 ☕️ & West Ham
Nov 11, 2019 • 25 tweets • 8 min read
Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh: "I apologize for the journalists who cannot be among us today.
#Lebanon's Central Bank has worked in an difficult environment...we have kept the currency stable.
Salame: When the #Syria-n civil war started...growth declined from 8% to 2%.
Since 2012 we faced sanctions, impacting monetary flow into #Lebanon... we also had internal problems. We remember the two presidential gaps...
There were also difficulties in forming govts in Lebanon
Oct 18, 2019 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
#Lebanon Prime Minister @saadhariri speaking from the Grand Serail - very close to Riad Solh Square where protests are taking place.
"In spite of everything, we are one family... What we saw yesterday is the pain of the Lebanese. I with them as long as they are peaceful."
#Lebanon PM Hariri: "The question is how do we move forward and find solutions.
"Though people expressed their pain on the streets yesterday, I've been working for 3 years to fixing these problems... we are spending more than we make."
