Derbas: Intensive Talks between Salam and Berri to Overcome Obstacles

Social affairs Minister Rashid Derbas stressed on Sunday that PM Tammam Salam is holding intensive contacts with Speaker Nabih Berri to overcome the obstacles hampering a cabinet convention.

“Prime Minister Tammam Salam will call for a cabinet convention following the successive dialogue sessions. He is holding contacts with the Speaker to get over the obstacles,” the state-run National News Agency quoted Derbas.

The Minister also said that the PM has “stressed the necessity to give priority to the waste management plan in order to remove the garbage that has been piling up in the streets as the winter season looms.”

On the Premier's visit to New York, Derbas said: “Salam has sensed that Lebanon is not one of the international community's priorities which stresses at the same time the need for stability in Lebanon and considers that the solution begins with the election of a new president.”

On the controversial issue of promotion of security officials the Minister said: “Al-Mustaqbal movement wants to find a solution and have been the green light for that.”