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Thursday 25 Jun 2015 - 13:56 Makkah mean time-8-9-1436
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Beirut, (IINA) - The European Union signed a 15 million euro ($16,778,588) financing agreement for the training of Lebanon’s security forces on Wednesday, in a dedicated effort to bolster the country’s fragile stability. This was in addition to a donation of 19 million euros ($21,254,754), Lebanese Daily Star reported.
The programs will be specifically designed to help security forces control the troubled eastern border, improve coordination and respond to the threat of chemical and biological weapons.
Johannes Hahn, commissioner for European Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations, met with Lebanese Prime Minister Tammam Salam on Wednesday after signing the agreement. “The program is designed to leverage, wherever possible, greater coordination and interoperability between security sector agencies,” Hahn said in a statement.
In addition to the security grant, the EU donated 19 million euros ($21,254,754) for environmental projects targeting Lebanon’s heavily polluted coastline. Nabil al-Jisr, the head of the Council for Development and Reconstruction, signed the agreement for Lebanon.
The prime minister attended the ceremony along with Interior Minister Nouhad Machnouk, Environment Minister Muhammad Machnouk, ambassadors of EU member states and other Lebanese officials.
Hahn and Salam then discussed regional politics and relations in a meeting at the Grand Serail, according to the premier’s media office.
The two donations come following a memorandum signed by Lebanon and the EU in October 2014, in which the both sides pledged greater collaboration.
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