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Beirut Airport Needs $24Mln to Address Security Flaws
Beirut Airport Needs $24Mln to Address Security Flaws
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The Beirut airport needs a new perimeter wall and baggage inspection equipment, according to local media, according to Lebanese Transport Minister Ghazi... 29.03.2016, Sputnik International
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Beirut Airport Needs $24Mln to Address Security Flaws
The Beirut airport needs a new perimeter wall and baggage inspection equipment, according to local media, according to Lebanese Transport Minister Ghazi Zeaiter.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Beirut’s Rafik Hariri International Airport needs $24 million to address the existing security flaws, Lebanese Transport Minister Ghazi Zeaiter said on Tuesday.
"Today we need rapidly to decide the financing for the airport," Zeaiter said, as quoted by The Daily Star newspaper.
According to Zeaiter, the airport needs a new perimeter wall and baggage inspection equipment, the media reported. The minister reportedly added that he had been calling on the government to provide the funds since 2014.
The minister also said he would instruct the appropriate contractor to begin work at the airport with the ministry’s available budget regardless of whether the cabinet approved the funds for the construction of the fence on Thursday.
Zeaiter’s statement comes a week after Lebanese Interior Minister Nouhad Machnouk pledged to address security issues at the airport in the wake of the deadly attacks at an airport and a metro station in the Belgian capital of Brussels on March 22.
