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Netherlands to give $3.2M to Lebanese Army

Koningin bij viering 10 jaar Internationaal Strafhof

(BEIRUT, LEBANON) — The Netherlands will give $3.2 million worth of weapons to the Lebanese Army, said Lebanon’s Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil during a meeting with the Dutch Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans on Monday.

Bassil also announced that Lebanon and the Netherlands would be collaborating at a legal level.

“We have agreed to form a common working group to follow up on the International Criminal Court’s case on the massacres committed by ISIS and the Nusra Front,” Bassil said on Twitter.

“We discussed how to fight terrorism in the region, we also discussed the bilateral relations between the two countries and how to develop them,” he added.

He also said he will meet with the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor Fato Bensouda on this matter.

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