Lebanon – Cyprus:
The President of Cyprus, Demetris Christofias, paid an official visit to Lebanon on 09-11/01 (arriving late in the evening of Wednesday 09/01 and leaving in the morning of 11/01), responding to an invitation by the President …
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Fadi Assaf.
L’Irak vient de décider de fermer ses frontières avec la Jordanie, alors que “le triangle sunnite” est en effervescence et menace d’isoler Bagdad et le pouvoir central irakien d’Amman et de Damas. Cette décision irakienne, prise après la …
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Lebanon – Petroleum Administration:
Lebanon’s Petroleum Administration visited President Michel Slaiman, Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, and Prime Minister Najib Mikati on 20/12, to brief them on the work that is being done ahead of the launching of the first licensing …
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Lebanon – Cyprus – Israel:
Lebanese-Cypriot relations were given a boost this past week (3-9/12) by a series of events, after a period of somewhat uneasy relations due to a Cypriot-Israeli agreement over the delimitation of their Exclusive Economic …
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Lebanon – Economic Prospects:
The Lebanese ministry of energy has to deal with complications arising from two separate projects initiated by minister Gebran Bassil: the construction of a power plant in Deir Amar and the leasing of electricity-generating ships …
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Lebanon – Iran:
Iran granted $40 million to Lebanon for the construction of a water dam in the village of Balaa in Batroun to generate power. The deal was signed on 16/11 in Beirut between the Iranian Energy Minister …
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An article published in Al-Akhbar by Nasser Charara [Link in Arabic. French translation here] on November 13 looks at the Syrian crisis through energy geopolitics. The author refers to leaks emanating from a “western oil giant” to conclude that …
Fadi Assaf.
Cela peut paraître curieux, voire provocateur, de qualifier le Liban, actuellement, et alors que la tension politique et les rivalités confessionnelles se traduisent régulièrement par des incidents sporadiques à travers le pays, d’oasis de stabilité. Cela l’est moins …
A statement released by Lebanese Energy minister Gebran Bassil’s office, published last evening (28/10) on his official twitter account and in today’s (29/10) edition of Annahar [both links in Arabic], referred, once again, to an equation the Minister has frequently …
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According to diplomatic sources quoted by the Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar on 24/10, former Special Coordinator for Regional Affairs at the State Department Frederic Hoff, who had recently retired, was asked by the State Department to resume his mediation efforts to …
L’assassinat du général Wissam el-Hassan ouvre la voie à toutes sortes de spéculations sur les commanditaires de cet acte terroriste, sur les exécutants et sur les motifs. Les pistes avancées par les analystes et autres experts pour le moins subjectifs …
Mona Sukkarieh.
Three thousand four hundred billion cubic meters of recoverable natural gas and 1.7 billion barrels of recoverable oil have brought attention to the Levant Basin and the countries surrounding it, a region mired in conflicts and whose strategic …
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