The office of caretaker Prime Minister Saad Hariri said that he appealed to more friendly states on Saturday to help Lebanon import essential goods as it wrestles with an acute economic crisis and hard currency shortages.
Hariri wrote to the leaders of Germany, Britain and Spain on Saturday to request help in securing credit for imports, having made the same appeal on Friday to Saudi Arabia, France, Russia, Turkey, the United States, China, and Egypt.
The letters were part of efforts to "deal with the liquidity shortage and to secure basic import needs for citizens ... to secure continued food security and raw materials for production", his office said.