Hariri pledges to fight corruption

Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has asserted that his government would provide the Lebanese Central Inspection Board (CIB) and other affiliated bodies needed support to enable them to improve the quality of their performance and to fight bureaucratic corruption.

Addressing an official meeting of the CIB, Hariri outlined the consequences of corruption as manifested in the failure of civil servants to effectively carry out their assigned duties, in accepting bribes and in the low quality and quantity of their production.