Iraq to provide Lebanon with 320,000 tons of wheat

The Iraqi Deputy Minister of Trade, Sattar Al-Jaberi, announced on Monday that Iraq is undertaking an initiative to deliver 320,000 tons of wheat to Lebanon.

Following his meeting with the Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament, Nabih Berri, in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, the Iraqi official said there is a plan to ship 320,000 tons of wheat to Lebanon by land once the situation in Syria stabilizes, according to Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA).

Al-Jaberi indicated that approximately 57,222 Lebanese headed to Iraq during the recent Israeli aggression against Lebanon, and there are currently about 6,000 of them still staying there.

The Iraqi Ministry of Trade revealed on Sunday that an Iraqi delegation will visit Lebanon soon to provide food and medical aid.

Al-Jaberi said in a statement earlier that the delegation will meet with Lebanese officials to discuss Iraq’s participation in providing assistance in kind to Lebanon.

The Iraqi official underlined that since the war on Lebanon and Gaza began, the Iraqi government has taken a number of immediate actions.

Lebanese media outlets mentioned that Lebanese refugees in Iraq began returning to their southern cities and villages on November 27, the day the ceasefire agreement between Israel and Lebanon came into effect.

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