LEBANON: Paris rematch
Beirut has pulled it off, again. For the second time in six years the country has managed to persuade the international community to part with large sums of money and give it yet another chance to sort out the parlous state of its economy. It appears to be a remarkable vote of confidence from donors when one considers that as Prime Minister Fouad Siniora left for the Paris conference, a large section of his countrymen were rioting on the streets of the capital in opposition to his reform programme and calling for his government to step down.
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