Lebanese Minister Urges Cooperation With Syria To Facilitate Exports To Arab Markets

Lebanese Minister Urges Cooperation With Syria To Facilitate Exports To Arab Markets

BEIRUT, Lebanon, April 21 (NNN-NNA) – Lebanese Minister of State for Foreign Trade, Hassan Mourad, said that, Lebanon’s economy can only be improved by reaching Arab markets through Syria.

“We should cooperate and communicate with our brothers, the Syrians, to facilitate the export of Lebanese products through the Syrian borders, to the rest of the Arab world,” Mourad was quoted as saying.

The minister’s remarks came, during the opening of a tourism and shopping festival in the Lebanese southern city of Tyre.

Mourad said, the Lebanese will work together to restore Lebanon’s role in exporting quality products to the rest of the world.

Lebanese Agriculture Minister, Hassan Lakkis visited Syria earlier this month, to discuss with Syrian authorities, ways of facilitating exports of Lebanese products through Syrian border by reducing fees on exported products.– NNN-NNA

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