Reading out today’s Cabinet session’s decisions, Caretaker Information Minister Ziad Makary announced that Prime Minister Najib Mikati decided to hold a special session of the Council of Ministers on August 17, whose top agenda items focusing on addressing the challenges of the next academic year related to public schools and the Lebanese University, in addition to another item related to road maintenance and cleaning works.

Minister Makary added that the Cabinet tasked the Minister of Economy with taking all necessary measures to purchase the amount of wheat according to an agreed-upon loan with the World Bank.

In turn, Caretaker Minister of Telecommunications Johnny Corm announced, after the Cabinet session, a sevenfold increase in the tariffs for fixed line communications and the Internet provided by Ogero.