Beirut, July 05: Lebanon’s prime minister-designate Saad Hariri rules out rumors that his cabinet will be formed under foreign influence, reports say.
“The cabinet will be 100 percent Lebanese-made, anything else is not true,” Hariri said after a Saturday meeting with President Michel Suleiman in the presidential palace on the outskirts of Beirut, stressing that ‘things are moving on the right track’, local Elnashra website reported.
Last week Suleiman tasked Hariri with forming a new cabinet, after his party won a majority of seats in the June 7 parliamentary elections.
Hariri also said that he would engage Syria when the time was ripe. “We want the best relations with Syria, but every thing in time is beautiful,” he said.
Relations between Lebanon and Syria soured after the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri — late father of premier-designate Saad Hariri.
—–Agencies