Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri’s press office denied on Monday reports of evading military cooperation with Russia, saying it was “false” information.
The office said in a press statement today: “Al-Akhbar newspaper published an article, today, entitled: Hariri evades military cooperation with Russia.” It confirms that “the information in the article is false and contrary to the course of positive relations with the Russian state.”
Al-Akhbar reported in its article that Hariri, “postponed for the tenth time, the decision to grant the Minister of Defence permission to sign a military cooperation agreement with Russia. However, at the same time, Hariri keeps promising Russian officials to sign the deal as soon as possible.
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