Lebanon needs to regain confidence via healthy governance: PM

Lebanon's Prime Minister Saad Hariri stressed Tuesday that Lebanon needs to regain confidence and should reactivate the State's institutions and end corruption.

According to a statement by his media office, Hariri said in a speech at the opening of the "Business and Financial Forum: Regaining the Trust."

He said "our duty is to regain confidence after years of constitutional vacuum, deadlock in institutions, vertical political divide, tension in Arab and international relations and bleakness in economy and investments."

"The election of the president and the formation of the government were the first step on this long road. After that, the government has taken rapid steps towards regaining confidence by adopting vital decrees and postponed decisions," Hariri added.

On the crisis of refugees in Lebanon, Hariri stressed that the fleeing of our "Syrian brothers are pressuring the ability of the state to ensure these basic services and doubles the pressure on the infrastructure which is already exhausted." Endit