{"id":161242,"date":"2022-01-25T15:09:06","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T07:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=161242"},"modified":"2022-01-25T15:12:59","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T07:12:59","slug":"lebanon-starts-first-round-of-official-talks-with-imf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=161242","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon Starts First Round Of Official Talks With IMF"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BEIRUT, Jan 25 (NNN-NNA) &#8211; Lebanon yesterday kicked off the first round of official talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), seeking to unlock aid for the crisis-hit country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lebanon&#8217;s deputy prime minister and chief negotiator, Saade Chami, said that, the talks focused on a range of economic and political topics, such as the budget, the banking sector and the exchange rate, the office of Prime Minister, Najib Mikati, said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chami expected other rounds of talks will be necessary, in order to reach a deal with the fund.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lebanon has been suffering from an unprecedented financial crisis, amid a shortage of U.S. currency reserves, exacerbated by the Beirut port explosions, and the lingering COVID-19 pandemic.&#8211; NNN-NNA &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIRUT, Jan 25 (NNN-NNA) &#8211; Lebanon yesterday kicked off the first round of official talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), seeking to unlock aid for the crisis-hit country. Lebanon&#8217;s deputy prime minister and chief negotiator, Saade Chami, said that, the talks focused on a range of economic and political topics, such as the budget, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":161246,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[300,217,194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161242"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=161242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/161246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=161242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=161242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=161242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}