Mikati thanks Iraq for helping Lebanon by providing fuel

Follow-up - INA

The Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati thanked the Iraqi government "for its support of Lebanon and its standing by it in these difficult circumstances, especially through the implementation of the Iraqi oil import contract, to participate in solving the electricity crisis.

The Minister of Energy and Water Resources Dr. Walid Fayyad, briefed to Mikati the procedures for the arrival of the first Iraqi oil ship to the Deir Ammar electric plant, which helps to increase the hours of feeding the current."

The Lebanese authorities began, today, Friday, to unload the first shipment of Iraqi fuel that arrived Yesterday, he arrived in Lebanon within the agreement concluded by the two sides, which stipulates that Iraq will supply heavy fuel oil to Lebanon for a period of one year.

Iraq and Lebanon had signed an agreement last July to sell one million tons of heavy fuel oil at international prices to Lebanon, provided that the payment would be in services and goods