French President: Lebanon needs reforms or will suffer more


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  • Thursday, 06 Aug 2020

FILE PHOTO: French President Emmanuel Macron answers journalists' questions during a visit on the theme of the "learning summer camps" at Chambord castle, France July 22, 2020. Ludovic Marin/Pool via REUTERS

PARIS (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron said Lebanon was facing a political and economic crisis, and that it would continue to suffer unless it enacted reforms.

Macron was speaking to reporters in Beirut, after his plane touched down at the start of an official visit following Tuesday's deadly warehouse explosion in the Lebanese capital.

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