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BEIRUT, Jan 25 — The new finance minister of debt-saddled Lebanon met today with an official from the International Monetary Fund for what he said was a “courtesy visit” and not bailout talks. Ghazi Wazni’s meeting with IMF alternative executive director Sami Geadah came as Lebanon grapples...

Lebanon’s new Finance Minister Ghazi Wazni meeting with IMF Alternative Executive Director Sami Geadah in the capital Beirut January 25, 2020. — Handout pic by Dalati and Nohra via AFP

Ghazi Wazni’s meeting with IMF alternative executive director Sami Geadah came as Lebanon grapples with its worst economic crisis since the 1975-1990 civil war. It follows a meeting yesterday between Wazni and a delegation from the World Bank led by its regional director Saroj Kumar Jha. The previous government resigned on October 29, two weeks into a nationwide protest movement demanding the removal of politicians deemed incompetent and corrupt.

 

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