US Reassures Lebanon Gas Supplies through Egypt "Shielded" from Caesar Law

Dorothy Shea, the US ambassador to Lebanon said that she has handed Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati an official written letter from the US Treasury confirming that there will be no US sanctions law concerns regarding the regional energy agreements that the US helped facilitate and encourage between Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt.

This came in statements by Doroti Shea, on Friday, after her meeting with Prime Minister Najib Mikati, at the Grand Serail, the headquarters of the Lebanese Council of Ministers, according to the Middle East News Agency.

She added that the speech, in which the US Treasury Department dispelled some of the concerns that the Lebanese authorities had regarding regional energy agreements between Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt.

She explained that this message, which was delivered to Mikati, represents a push forward and a major event as she continues to make progress towards achieving more sustainable and cleaner energy to help address the energy crisis plaguing the Lebanese people.

The US State Department had reassured Lebanon and the countries participating in the “Arab” gas pipeline, which crosses the areas controlled by the Syrian regime, of the consequences of the Caesar Protection Law.

The law, which became effective in June 2020, provides for the punishment of anyone who provides support to the Syrian regime, and obliges the President of the United States to impose sanctions on Assad's allies.

Earlier, the Lebanese Energy Minister Walid Fayad had confirmed that participants in the project to supply Lebanon with Egyptian gas will be shielded from the law.