BEIRUT: The Cabinet’s weekly session got underway at the Grand Serail Thursday, with the hostage crisis being the only pressing item on the agenda, after discussions on the telecom and garbage files were postponed.
“Concerning the garbage topic... we have submitted the proposal and we are working on the bid document,” Environment Minister Mohammad Machnouk said before entering the meeting. “We wanted to gather all remarks on the file and we are done with that.”
Machnouk explained that the file would be discussed at a ministerial meeting Tuesday, which will be attended by representatives of all parties.
“This file will be on the [agenda] of the Cabinet’s session next week,” he told reporters.
The minister is expected to finalize the government’s project concerning garbage collection and waste management. The bid document he mentioned lists the criteria for the next call for tenders that will attract new companies to manage the sector.
The Cabinet is also expected to make a decision concerning the bid document for the telecom sector amid disagreements between Telecoms Minister Boutrous Harb and the ministers of March 8 alliance over the issue.
But that dicusssion was also postponed to the next session.
The Cabinet is expected to discuss 52 minor items, apart from the regular talks on the 26 servicemen still held captive by militants from ISIS and the Nusra Front in Arsal’s outskirts.
Ministerial sources said a clear disagreement exists between ministers of different parties on how to deal with this file.
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