The Lebanese Presidency denied the circulated talk attributed to Salam

The presidency of the Lebanese University denied in a statement what was circulated by the media and social networking sites of the words attributed to the Prime Minister-designate, Judge Nawaf Salam, to the effect that he prefers graduates of the American University or European universities exclusively to be appointed to the upcoming ministry. The statement said: “Based on the above, and in order to clarify the issue and remove any ambiguity fo…

Al-Jadeed TV reported on Friday that Prime Minister-designate Nawaf Salam did not object to the nomination of former MP Yassin Jaber to head the Finance Ministry in the upcoming government, during a meeting with MP Ali Hassan Khalil and Mr. Hussein Khalil, the political assistant to the Secretary-General of Hezbollah. In contrast, Al-Jadeed said that Nawaf Salam asked Hezbollah to choose a minister from the graduates of the American University t…

The sources of President-designate Nawaf Salam told Al-Jadid that there is no truth to what was attributed to Salam in the media about his statement, “I will give Shiites what they want. They are a wounded people and I am the one who wants Yassin Jaber.”