Lebanon president to chair crisis talks over weekend violence

Lebanon president to chair crisis talks over weekend violence
January 20, 2020, 9:44 am

Lebanon's President Michel Aoun is pictured as he addresses the nation at the Baabda palace, Lebanon October 24, 2019. (File photo Reuters)

Lebanon’s under-fire president is set to meet Monday with top security officials to discuss rare violence over the weekend that left hundreds wounded in the protest-hit country.

Michel Aoun will be joined by the care-taker ministers of the interior and defense as well as the chiefs of the military and security agencies in the early afternoon, his office said in a statement.

The meeting will touch on “security developments” in a country rocked since October 17 by unprecedented protests against a political class deemed incompetent, corrupt and responsible for an ever-deepening economic crisis.

It will also address “measures that need to be taken to preserve peace and stability,” the state-run National Newsagency (NNA) reported.

Demonstrators at the weekend lobbed stones, firecrackers, and street signs at riot police, who fired tear gas and rubber bullets to clear a flashpoint road near parliament.

source: AFP

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