A cabinet session convened on Thursday at the Grand Serail under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Tammam Salam.
During the session, the cabinet postponed discussions over the mobile phone operators to next week, provided that Telecommunications Minister Boutros Harb will extend the term of the phone operators for another month.
This as ministerial sources said that the Cabinet discussed the waste crisis in the Chouf and Aley regions, as well as the pollution of the Litani River and the necessity to shut down the quarries surrounding it.
For his part, Minister of Interior Nouhad Machnouq asserted that the pollution of the Litani River will not end up with the closure of quarries.
In this context,the Machnouq demanded the conduction of a study on these quarries.
In turn, Agriculture Minister Akram Chehayeb said that the urgent matter in the case of Litani River is the closure of all landfills and sand quarries in the region.
Meanwhile, Minister of Finance Ali Hassan Khalil said that the minimum wage is still 675 thousands LBP, adding that the Ministry of Finance does not have anything to do with the 4000 LBP deduction, adding that the Ministry of Labor corrected an equation with an error.