{"id":53678,"date":"2019-12-07T11:11:51","date_gmt":"2019-12-07T03:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=53678"},"modified":"2019-12-07T11:16:05","modified_gmt":"2019-12-07T03:16:05","slug":"lebanon-calls-for-financial-support-to-secure-import-of-food-raw-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=53678","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon Calls For Financial Support To Secure Import Of Food, Raw Materials"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BEIRUT, Dec 7 (NNN-NNA) &#8211; Lebanese care-take Prime Minister, Saad Hariri, appealed for international financial support, to help secure Lebanon&#8217;s import of food and raw materials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hariri&#8217;s office said, the appeal was made in his letters sent to the King of Saudi Arabia, presidents of France, Turkey, Russia, Egypt and China, as well as, Italy&#8217;s prime minister and U.S. secretary of state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lebanon suffer difficulties in importing basic products because of the shortage of U.S dollar in the market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The economic slowdown and the drop in cash injections from Lebanese expatriates, reduced the central bank&#8217;s foreign currency reserves, leading to a shortage in dollar for both businesses and individuals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The demand for dollar has created a parallel market in Lebanon, in which one dollar is being sold for more than 2,000 Lebanese pounds, much higher than the official exchange rate.&#8211; NNN-NNA  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIRUT, Dec 7 (NNN-NNA) &#8211; Lebanese care-take Prime Minister, Saad Hariri, appealed for international financial support, to help secure Lebanon&#8217;s import of food and raw materials. Hariri&#8217;s office said, the appeal was made in his letters sent to the King of Saudi Arabia, presidents of France, Turkey, Russia, Egypt and China, as well as, Italy&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":53683,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208,215,300,209,217,194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53678"}],"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=53678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}