Iraq sends a million liters of Fuel to Lebanon

Shafaq News/ The Iraqi Oil Minister, Ihsan Abdul-Jabbar announced today, Sunday, that 30 tankers carrying more than a million liters of fuel oil will be heading to Beirut from Iraq.

Abdul-Jabbar said in a statement received by Shafaq News agency, "The new batch of fuel oil comes as part of the assistance provided by the Iraqi government and nation to the Lebanese nation, based on the directives of the prime minister and the government to support our siblings after the disaster of the explosion of the port of Lebanon".

For his part, the Director-General of the Oil Products Distribution Company, Hussein Talib, said, "The preparations for the second batch will be finalized in the coming hours", confirming that, "30 tanks have been equipped with more than One million liters of fuel oil".

The Ministry of Oil had provided Lebanon earlier with 800 thousand liters of gas oil, which was transported by road.