Caretaker Prime Minister Hassan Diab discussed with Assistant Secretary of State for Political Affairs David Hale, accompanied by Ambassador Dorothy Shea and assistants Daniel Newman and Benjamin Ambori, the economic and social situation in Lebanon.

Hale conveyed the US administration’s concern about not forming a new government, at a time when Diab stressed the country’s need to form a government to address various crises, and to initiate a reform workshop, based on the plan drawn up by his government.