Iraq agreed to increase the amount of fuel allocated to support the production of electric power in Lebanon. Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi informed Mikati of a promise to work to double the Iraqi fuel amounting to 60,000 tons per month at present, provided that executive arrangements would be made between the two countries in meetings to be held in the coming days at the level of energy and electricity ministers.

Energy Minister Walid Fayyad will visit Baghdad next week to translate the agreement through procedural steps, and he will meet mid-week in Amman with his Jordanian and Syrian counterparts to expedite the agreement to draw electric power from Jordan through Syria.

In the past two days, Fayyad met in Cairo with a number of Egyptian officials to speed up the signing of an agreement allowing Lebanon to buy Lebanon of Egyptian gas through the Arab line that passes through Jordan and Syria, after an Egyptian company completed repairing a malfunction in a section of the pipeline inside Lebanese territory.

In his talks, Fayyad sought to sign a long-term agreement for 15 years with larger quantities of gas sufficient, with Iraqi fuel and Jordanian electricity, to provide about 12 hours of electricity supply before the end of the year.