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Lebanon forms new government

Xinhua, December 19, 2016 Adjust font size:

A new Lebanese government, headed by Prime Minister Saad Hariri, was announced Sunday night.

Fouad Fleifel, secretary general of the council of ministers, read the decrees of the formation after the meeting that was held at the Presidential Palace between Aoun and Hariri in the presence of Speaker Nabih Berri.

Hariri, who was asked to form the first cabinet of the tenure of President Michel Aoun, faced many political obstacles before apparently reaching the consensus that led to the formation of the cabinet. Endit