Lebanon will soon receive the first shipment of weapons funded through the $1 billion Saudi grant, Interior Minister Nouhad Mashnouk told Al-Mustaqbal newspaper in remarks published on Monday.
The first batch will be coming from Jordan , the Al-Mustaqbal newspaper reported.
The funds were reportedly divided equally between the army and the Internal Security forces . Each getting $500 million worth of arms
Machnouk told the daily that the delivery of weapons and equipment as part of the Internal Security Forces’ share of the $1 billion grant announced in August “was on its way.”
Al-Mustaqbal also quoted a military official as saying the Lebanese Army has completed the majority of the contracts related to its share of the funds
With regards to the arms funded by the $3 billion Saudi grant , French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius had announced that the first arms shipment of the will reach Lebanon on April 1.
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