{"id":55873,"date":"2019-12-22T11:38:37","date_gmt":"2019-12-22T03:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=55873"},"modified":"2019-12-22T11:42:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T03:42:00","slug":"lebanons-newly-appointed-pm-urges-all-political-parties-protesters-to-cooperate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=55873","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon&#8217;s Newly-Appointed PM Urges All Political Parties, Protesters To Cooperate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BEIRUT, Dec 22 (NNN-NNA) &#8211; Newly-appointed Lebanese Prime Minister, Hassan Diab, urged all political parties and civil society protesters, to join efforts to save Lebanon from its difficult situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We cannot wait any longer. We need a government of experts. It is time for serious work,&#8221; Diab was quoted as saying by Elnashra, an independent newspaper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Diab&#8217;s remarks came, following his visit to different parliamentary blocs for consultations, with regard to government formation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Diab said that a small government will be formed in the coming few days, to start dealing with the challenges prevailing in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The newly-appointed prime minister said, the next government will represent all of Lebanon and not one political party only.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;My aim is to work on solving the crises in Lebanon,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Thursday, Diab won the majority of parliamentary votes to become the new prime minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Diab succeeded in securing 69 out of 128 parliamentary votes, to form a new government, which will end 50 days of political stalemate.&#8211; NNN-NNA  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIRUT, Dec 22 (NNN-NNA) &#8211; Newly-appointed Lebanese Prime Minister, Hassan Diab, urged all political parties and civil society protesters, to join efforts to save Lebanon from its difficult situation. &#8220;We cannot wait any longer. We need a government of experts. It is time for serious work,&#8221; Diab was quoted as saying by Elnashra, an independent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":55875,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[217,194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55873"}],"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=55873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}