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BEIRUT: The dollar exchange rate against the Lebanese pound rose again on Tuesday despite the measures taken by the security forces to pursue black market money-changers.
The dollar exchange rate has reached 10,500 Lebanese pounds, a rise of 200 Lebanese pounds since Monday.
Meanwhile, illicit money-changers were pursued by the authorities in Beirut and its suburbs. Money-changers were arrested in Tire and Chtaura, and black market shops that exchange dollars were closed and sealed with red wax.
The security forces raided homes and centers where money-changing activity normally takes place. This move coincided with a ban on local platforms and websites that trade dollars.
Friday, 26 February, 2021 - 10:30
Maronite Patriarch Bechara al-Rai received on Thursday delegations in support for his call for an international conference on Lebanon. (Photo: NNA). Beirut - Caroline Akoum
Maronite Patriarch Bechara Al-Rai reiterated on Thursday that his proposal to hold an international conference on Lebanon came “after we reached a place where we cannot understand each other.”
He called on all Lebanese sides to “put together a paper about the problem in Lebanon, to present it to the United Nations without referring to any country.
Rai’s comments came during a meeting with delegations from political figures, who voiced their support to his initiative and called for the formation of a wide national front that would work to achieve “positive neutrality” and the implementation of resolutions of international legitimacy pertaining to Lebanon.
Cardinal by Pope Benedict XVI in a consistory on 24 November 2012.
Lebanon’s Maronite Patriarch Bechara Al-Rai called on Sunday for an UN-sponsored international conference on Lebanon to protect the 1989 Taef Agreement that helped end the civil war and divided power among rival factions.
“The conference’s objective would be to revive Lebanon through immunizing the Document of National Accord issued by the Taef Conference in 1989, and to implement its text and spirit and correct the obvious flaws in the constitution, that was amended according to it in 1990,” the Cardinal said during his Sunday mass ceremony.
He said an international conference for Lebanon would also aim to enable the Lebanese State to regain its life, vitality, positive neutrality, impartiality, and its role as a stabilizing factor in the region.
Monday, 22 February, 2021 - 09:45
Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rai | Photo: Reuters file Beirut- Asharq Al-Awsat
Maronite Patriarch Bechara Al-Rai called on Sunday for an UN-sponsored international conference on Lebanon to protect the 1989 Taef Agreement that helped end the civil war and divided power among rival factions.
“The conference’s objective would be to revive Lebanon through immunizing the Document of National Accord issued by the Taef Conference in 1989, and to implement its text and spirit and correct the obvious flaws in the constitution, that was amended according to it in 1990,” the Patriarch said during his Sunday mass ceremony.
He said an international conference for Lebanon would also aim to enable the Lebanese State to regain its life, vitality, positive neutrality, impartiality, and its role as a stabilizing factor in the region.