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MP Hariri meets US National Security Advisor and IMF Managing Director
Thursday, January 26, 2006
Head of the Future bloc in Parliament MP Saad Rafic Hariri held separate meetings in Washington with US National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Eric Edelman, IMF Managing Director Rodrigo de Rato and his deputy Agustín Carstens, and a delegation representing the Task Force for Lebanon, as part of talks that he is holding in the United States.
MP Hariri met National Security Advisor Hadley at the White House, before visiting the US Undersecretary of Defense for Policy at the Pentagon for talks on US military aid to the Lebanese Army. Mr. Hariri also visited the headquarters of the International Monetary Fund, where he met the IMF Managing Director and his deputy. Mr. de Rato reaffirmed the IMF’s support for Lebanon, and announced that an IMF delegation will visit Lebanon on February 7th for talks with the government on financial and economic reform. MP Hariri thanked Mr. de Renato for the Fund’s backing of reform and pointed out that the Future parliamentary bloc and the legislative majority support the reform process.
Earlier, MP Hariri received a delegation representing the Task Force for Lebanon led by Mr. Peter Tannous. Talks focused on developments in Lebanon and the region.
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