Seklaoui to the defamers: “ending the monopoly leads to the monopoly by smugglers and requests to take possession over the sector deprive the State treasury from incomes
Prime Minister Najib Mikati considered, during the patronage today, Monday, of the inauguration of the Regie new production line at its headquarters in Hadath and the launch of the “barcoded stamp application", that this step is a "new success” for a department that “has been able to transform the country's many challenges into new opportunities”.
During the ceremony, which was attended by the Minister of Finance, Dr. Youssef Al Khalil and the Minister of Industry, George Boushikian, in addition to a representative of the British Embassy, representatives of international tobacco companies, a number of Regie officials and heads of tobacco and Tumbac syndicates in Akkar, South and Bekaa, President Mikati said: “I am pleased to be among you today to witness together a new success of the Regie, and to closely examine the story of a public institution that had been able to reach world level due to the vision of its officials and their wise management. What matters to us is that this story of profitability continues with the alignment between reducing the social costs of smoking and decreasing the health bill by reducing the number of smokers, raising prices t