Miqati Announces Lebanese Government Resignation

BEIRUT, (ST) _ Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Miqati on Friday evening announced his government’s resignation.
The Lebanese national media agency quoted Miqati as saying in a statement at the government’s headquarters that the resignation comes ” to pave the  way before  the formation of a national salvation government,” adding: “there is no way for salvation in Lebanon only through dialogue.”
Miqati pointed out that the  Lebanese Cabinet rejected the formation of an  election supervisory body and that no  consensus was maintained  on extension for  the Director General of the Internal Security Forces Major General Ashraf Rifi, whose  presence, for Miqati,  is a necessity in these circumstances in Lebanon .

T. Fateh