{"id":6330,"date":"2019-01-30T12:39:19","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T04:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/10.0.5.12\/nnn\/?p=6330"},"modified":"2019-01-30T12:39:21","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T04:39:21","slug":"france-denies-reports-of-stopping-aid-to-lebanese-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=6330","title":{"rendered":"France Denies Reports Of Stopping Aid To Lebanese Army"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>       <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>BEIRUT, Lebanon, Jan 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8211; France has denied media reports that France had suspended its support to the Lebanese army, to protest Hezbollah&#8217;s continued military mobilisation, said the French Embassy in Lebanon, on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;France did not stop its military aid to Lebanon, and French President, Emmanuel Macron will not cancel his visit to Lebanon, which is due in Feb,&#8221; Agnes Von der Muhll, spokesperson of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs was quoted as saying in a statement, released by the embassy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Media reports had earlier quoted French Foreign Minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian as saying that, Macron planned to cancel his visit to Lebanon, if Lebanon fails to form a new government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reports also suggested that France had suspended support to the Lebanese army.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;France is paying close attention to the situation in Lebanon and hopes to see the formation of a new government as soon as possible,&#8221; the statement read, stressing the need to &#8220;ensure Lebanon&#8217;s sovereignty, stability and security.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The statement also called upon Lebanese officials, to implement the needed reforms, in a bid to obtain the 11 billion U.S. dollars, pledged for Lebanon by donor countries.&#8211; NNN-AGENCIES <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIRUT, Lebanon, Jan 30 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8211; France has denied media reports that France had suspended its support to the Lebanese army, to protest Hezbollah&#8217;s continued military mobilisation, said the French Embassy in Lebanon, on Tuesday. &#8220;France did not stop its military aid to Lebanon, and French President, Emmanuel Macron will not cancel his visit to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6330"}],"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=6330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}